Definitions for Solo

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Solo so·lo

Spelling: [soh-loh]

IPA: /ˈsoʊ loʊ/

Solo is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 20 anagrams from letters in Solo (loos).

Definitions for Solo

noun

1. a musical composition or a passage or section in a musical composition written for performance by one singer or instrumentalist, with or without accompaniment:
2. any performance, as a dance, by one person.
3. a flight in an airplane during which the pilot is unaccompanied by an instructor or other person:
4. a person who works, acts, or performs alone:
5. a person who performs or accomplishes something without the usual equipment, tools, etc.
6. Informal. an announcement, commercial offering, etc., made to only one person or a selected group of such persons:
7. Cards. any of certain games in which one person plays alone against others.
8. former name of Surakarta.

adverb

1. on one's own; alone or unaccompanied:

adjective

1. Music. performing alone:
2. performed alone; not combined with other parts of equal importance; not concerted.
3. alone; without a companion or partner:

verb (used with object)

1. to pilot (a plane, glider, etc.) unaccompanied.
2. to allow (a student pilot) to pilot a plane, glider, etc., alone:

verb (used without object)

1. to perform or do a solo:
2. to pilot a plane, glider, etc., unaccompanied, especially for the first time:
3. to perform or accomplish something by oneself.

Origin of Solo

1685-95; Italian Latin sōlus alone

Examples for Solo

One of the preachers sang a solo, and presided at the organ.

The work is written for four solo voices, chorus, and orchestra.

I remember practicing that lick [from the solo “Round Midnight” recording] years ago, learning how to do that cascade effect.

Stanton sang a solo, and then all joined in “Auld Lang Syne.”

He started out with solo flights, but in this session over the desert outside Dubai he really pushes the envelope.

I don't mean he proved that a thirty- or forty-minute solo is necessarily better than a three-minute one.

That is the solo of human life overpowered by hallelujah chorus.

We had been going through the solo soprano parts of the “Paradise Lost.”

Instead of that typical thing of playing solo after solo—been there, done that.

The mini- Monet, as many have come to know him, had his first solo exhibition shortly after.