英和和英

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈsɒlɪˌtjuːd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑlɪˌtud/
• ハイフネーション: sol‧i‧tude

名詞

solitude (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 solitudes)

1. Aloneness; the state of being alone, solitary, or by oneself.

   Synonym: aloneness

   Antonym: intimacy

   • 1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 2:

     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.

   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 193:

     Cranks like Rousseau made solitude glamorous, but sensible people agreed that it was really terrible.

2. A lonely or deserted place.
   • 1813, Lord Byron, Bride of Abydos, Canto 2, stanza 20:

     Mark where his carnage and his conquests cease!
     He makes a solitude, and calls it — peace.

   • 1874, Georg August Schweinfurth, chapter I, in Ellen E. Frewer, transl., The Heart of Africa: Three Years' Travels and Adventures in the Unexplored Regions of Central Africa, from 1868 to 1871‎^[1], second edition, volume I, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, And Searle, translation of Im Herzen von Afrika, Botanical Ardour:

     [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.

派生語

• two solitudes

関連する語

• sole
• solo
• soliloquy
• solitary
• solitudinous
• solitudinously

参考

• loneliness

Further reading

• solitude on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• outslide, slideout, toluides