US /ˈsoʊləs/ UK /ˈsəʊləs/
adj Freq #90176

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    literary or in stage directions: alone; unaccompanied

    After the others left, he sat solus by the fire.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 adj · literary or in stage... aloneunaccompaniedsolo
Opposites
Word family
Related forms solosolitarysolesolitude

Etymology

Borrowed directly from Latin solus, 'alone or only.' English first used the Latin word prominently in stage directions indicating that a character entered or remained alone, then extended it occasionally to literary prose.

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