SOLITAIRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does solitaire mean? 

• SOLITAIRE (noun)
  The noun SOLITAIRE has 4 senses:

1. a gem (usually a diamond) in a setting by itself

2. extinct flightless bird related to the dodo

3. a dull grey North American thrush noted for its beautiful song

4. a card game played by one person

  Familiarity information: SOLITAIRE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOLITAIRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A gem (usually a diamond) in a setting by itself

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("solitaire" is a kind of...):

gem; jewel; precious stone (a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Extinct flightless bird related to the dodo

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Pezophaps solitaria; solitaire

Hypernyms ("solitaire" is a kind of...):

columbiform bird (a cosmopolitan order of land birds having small heads and short legs with four unwebbed toes)

Holonyms ("solitaire" is a member of...):

genus Pezophaps; Pezophaps (constituted by the extinct solitaire)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A dull grey North American thrush noted for its beautiful song

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("solitaire" is a kind of...):

thrush (songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast)

Holonyms ("solitaire" is a member of...):

genus Myadestes; Myadestes (solitaires)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A card game played by one person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

patience; solitaire

Hypernyms ("solitaire" is a kind of...):

card game; cards (a game played with playing cards)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "solitaire"):

canfield (a form of solitaire that involves gambling)

klondike (a form of solitaire that begins with seven piles of cards with the top cards facing up; descending sequences of cards of alternating colors are built on these piles; as aces become available they are placed above the seven piles; the object is to build sequences in suit from ace to king as the remaining cards are dealt out one at a time)

crapette; Russian bank (solitaire with two players using separate packs)