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solidarity Definition

soli·dar·ity (säl′ə dar′ə tē)

noun pl. -·ties

combination or agreement of all elements or individuals, as of a group; complete unity, as of opinion, purpose, interest, or feeling

Etymology: Fr solidarité < solidaire: see solid & -ary

solidarity Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • express: T forms are also used to express solidarity or intimacy.
  • mobilize: On their part, therefore, these workers have been forced to mobilize the solidarity of the whole working class.
  • strengthen: A good example of modern technology being used to strengthen international solidarity.
  • show: Showing solidarity: the England soccer team get behind the London 2012 bid.
  • demonstrate: The London Irish Greens held a protest outside Shell HQ on Tuesday of this week, to demonstrate solidarity with the persecuted men.

Preposition: with

  • prisoner: People in the building earlier in the night gathered for a meeting and prepared a statement in solidarity with the prisoners.
  • victim: Mere facts must not be allowed to get in the way of solidarity with victims.
  • striker: Meyer spoke of a delegation from a nearby engine works who came to express their solidarity with the strikers.

Adjective modifier

  • proletarian: Show that proletarian solidarity exists in deeds and not just in words!
  • mutual: Our mutual solidarity is today enhanced with the establishment of our strategic alliance.
  • international: The moral argument for international trade union solidarity has always existed.
  • communal: Yet an enclosed institution could well have generated a measure of communal solidarity among its inmates, to help counter the worst excesses.
  • collective: Nevertheless, Fatima's project has successfully established a member- based organization for farmwomen ( also open to men ) to build collective solidarity.
  • social: Durkheim taught us about social solidarity, how you keep a society together ' .

Modifies a noun

  • vigil: Approach them to stage a solidarity vigil on the first day of our trail at an Irish Embassy or Consul.
  • protest: Several activists were arrested, but released later co-inciding with a solidarity protest in front of Charing Cross Police Station.
  • demonstration: This was part of solidarity demonstrations that were going on throughout the US.
  • action: The solidarity action by BA workers to come out on strike in support of Gate Gourmet staff was illegal in the UK.
solidarity Quotes

The economic services that it can render are picayune compared to the moral effect that it produces, and its true function is to create in two or more persons a feeling of solidarity.

—Durkheim, EŁ  mile

He who once became aware of the power of Solidarity and who breathed the air of freedom will not be crushed.

—Walesa, Lech

The feeling individual appeared weaköhe felt only his own weakness.But if he accepted his weakness and his separateness and descended into himself, intensifying his loneliness, he discovered his solidarity with other isolated creatures.

—Bellow, Saul