SOLITAIRE

Solitaire

"Solitaire" is a ballad written by Neil Sedaka and Phil Cody. Cody employs playing the card game of solitaire as a metaphor for a man "who lost his love through his indifference" - "while life goes on around him everywhere he's playing solitaire". The song is best known via its rendition by the Carpenters.

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solitaire

Noun

  1. A person who lives alone; a recluse or hermit.
  2. A game for one person, played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by "jumping", as in draughts.
  3. Any of various card games that can be played by one person. Called patience in the rest of the world.
  4. An extinct bird related to dodo, , Rodrigues solitaire, that lived on the island of Rodrigues.
  5. An extinct bird formerly believed to be related to the dodo, more precisely Reunion solitaire, , now preferably Reunion ibis, .
  6. One of several American species of bird in the genus Myadestes in the thrush family.
  7. A gem set on its own.

Adjective

  1. living or being alone; solitary


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