Alone vs Solitaire - What's the difference?
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By oneself, solitary.
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*(Bible), (w) ii. 18
*:It is not good that the man should be alone .
*(Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
*:Alone on a wide, wide sea.
Apart from, or exclusive of, others.
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*(Richard Bentley) (1662-1742)
*:God, by whose alone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being.
Considered separately.
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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone , without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
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Without equal.
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:(Shakespeare)
By one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; solo.
Without outside help.
Exclusively.
A person who lives alone; a recluse or hermit.
* (Alexander Pope)
A game for one person, played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by "jumping", as in draughts.
(chiefly, US) Any of various card games that can be played by one person. Called patience in the rest of the world.
An extinct bird related to dodo, , Rodrigues solitaire, that lived on the island of Rodrigues.
An extinct bird formerly believed to be related to the dodo, more precisely , .
One of several American species of bird in the genus Myadestes in the thrush family.
A gem set on its own.
(obsolete) A black neck ribbon worn with a bag wig in the 18th century.
* 1771 , Tobias Smollett, Humphry Clinker , Penguin Classics, 1985, p.191:
As adjectives the difference between alone and solitaire
is that alone is by oneself, solitary while solitaire is living or being alone; solitary.As an adverb alone
is by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; solo.As a noun solitaire is
a person who lives alone; a recluse or hermit.alone
English
(wikipedia alone)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=In America alone , people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}
Ian Traynor
Rise of Europe's new autocrats, passage=Hungary's leader is not alone in eastern and southern Europe, where democratically elected populist strongmen increasingly dominate, deploying the power of the state and a battery of instruments of intimidation to crush dissent, demonise opposition, tame the media and tailor the system to their ends.}}
Usage notes
* Used after what it modifies.Adverb
(-)Usage notes
* Unlike most focusing adverbs, alone typically appears after a noun phrase. *: Only the teacher knew'' vs. ''The teacher alone knewSynonyms
* (by oneself) lone, lonely, single, solitary, solo * (without outside help) singlehandedly, by myself * (exclusively)Derived terms
* alonely * leave alone * let aloneStatistics
*solitaire
English
Noun
(en noun)- The fellow wears a solitaire , uses paint, and takes rappee with all the grimace of a French marquis.