The meaning of Solitaire

noun

Any of various card games played by one person, the object of which is to use up all one's cards by forming particular arrangements and sequences.

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Indeed, the game is sometimes called patience sorting, where patience is the british term for solit…

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A game for one player played by removing pegs one at a time from a board by jumping others over them from adjacent holes, the object being to be left with only one peg.

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Solitaire is a board game for one player involving movement of pegs on a board with holes.

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A diamond or other gem set in a piece of jewellery by itself.

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A diamond solitaire

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Either of two large extinct flightless birds related to the dodo, found on two of the mascarene islands until they were exterminated in the 18th century.

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The dna evidence does indicate that the dodo and the solitaire separated from a common ancestor abo…

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A large american thrush with mainly grey plumage and a short bill.

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Everything was bone dry, and the cedar breaks below the escarpment held not a single robin, waxwing…

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A single jewel that is part of a piece of jewelry, esp. a ring, or the ring itself

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A diamond solitaire