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solo (sō′lō)

noun pl. solos -·los or soli -·li (-lē)

    1. a musical piece or passage played or sung by one person, with or without accompaniment
    2. a performance of such a piece or passage
    3. a dance, pantomime, etc., for performance by one person
  2. an airplane flight made by a pilot alone, without an assistant, instructor, etc.
  3. any performance by one person alone
  4. any of several card games in which each person plays, or a person may choose to play, alone against the others, without a partner

Etymology: It < L solus, alone, sole

adjective

  1. designed for or performed by a single voice, person, or instrument
  2. performing a solo

adverb

without another or others; alone

intransitive verb soloed -·loed, soloing -·lo·ing

  1. to perform a solo
  2. to make a solo flight

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solo Synonyms

solo

n.

  1. A musical piece for one

    aria, pas seul (French), single part; see music 1, song.

  2. A performance by one person

    solo flight, unaccompanied performance, one-person show.


solo

modif.

alone, on one's own, singly, single, solely.


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solo Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • drum: Don't let anyone tell you a drum solo is a cliché without having heard one of his.

Preposition: in

  • glider: The Air Training Corps can give you the opportunity to fly solo in a glider at the age of 16.

Adjective modifier

  • virtuoso: Every drum beat, keyboard line and virtuoso cheesy guitar solo thunders out of your speakers at 100mph like a herd of rampant wildebeest.

Modifies a noun

  • album: Do you think his solo album will ever come out?

Noun used with modifier

  • guitar: By the time the guitar solo comes in, you've reached the rainbow.
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solo quotes

   Back of the bar, in a solo game, sat dangerous Dan McGrew, And watching his luck was his light-o'-love, the lady that's known as Lou.

-Service, Robert William

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