Definitions for solitaire

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solitaire sol·i·taire

Spelling: [sol-i-tair]

IPA: /ˈsɒl ɪˌtɛər/

Solitaire is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 654 anagrams from letters in solitaire (aeiilorst).

Definitions for solitaire

noun

1. Also called patience. any of various games played by one person with one or more regular 52-card packs, part or all of which are usually dealt out according to a given pattern, the object being to arrange the cards in a predetermined manner.
2. a game played by one person alone, as a game played with marbles or pegs on a board having hollows or holes.
3. a precious stone, especially a diamond, set by itself, as in a ring.
4. any of several American thrushes of the genus Myadestes, having short, broad bills and noted for their beautiful songs.
5. a large extinct flightless bird of the genus Pezophaps, related to the dodo but with a longer neck, smaller bill, and longer legs, that inhabited the Mascarene Islands.

Origin of solitaire

1350-1400; Middle English French Latin sōlitārius solitary

Examples for solitaire

I might have known better, too; spillin' all that dope about the solitaire.

So I take it there's been something doin' in the solitaire and wilt-thou line.

It is a game of chess, and not of solitaire, nor even of checkers.

She played the game alone with a little assistance from Emma—a game of solitaire.

Of all the birds on the Rockies, the one most marvelously eloquent is the solitaire.

It was a fascinating kind of solitaire, solving the problem of what to do on rainy Sundays.

In the solitaire's song one feels all the freshness and the promise of spring.

That sweet singer, the solitaire, is the chorister of the forest.

The solitaire was confined to the island of Mascaregue or Bourbon.

It even threatens such veteran horizontally integrated favorites as Scrabble, solitaire, and the crossword puzzle.