solitude
/ˈsɑlɪˌtud/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.42 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Now the New Year reviving old Desires, The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires, Where the White Hand of Moses on the Bough Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires."
- "Cranks like Rousseau made solitude glamorous, but sensible people agreed that it was really terrible."
- "As much as I definitely enjoy solitude / I wouldn't mind perhaps / Spending little time with you"
- "Mark where his carnage and his conquests cease! He makes a solitude, and calls it — peace."
- "[S]uch an one […] recalls as a vision of Paradise the land he has learnt to love; he exaggerates the insalubrity of a northern climate; he bewails the wretched formality of our civilised life, and so, back to the distant solitudes flies his recollection like a dove to the wilderness."
Etymology
From Middle English solitude, from Old French solitude, from Latin sōlitūdō. By surface analysis, sole + -itude.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: solitude, sōlitūdō
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsɑlɪˌtud/
- British English: /ˈsɒlɪˌtjuːd/