[mass noun]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 单人跳棋 ■the card game patience 单人纸牌戏
a diamond or other gem set in a piece of jewellery by itself (镶嵌在珠宝首饰上的)独粒钻石(或宝石) ■a ring set with such a gem 独粒宝石戒指
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 渡渡鸟状绝灭鸟
Family Raphidae: the Rodriguez solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria), and the poorly known Réunion solitaire (Ornithaptera solitaria) 孤鸽科:罗得里格斯孤鸽(拉丁名Pezophaps solitaria)和很少有人知道的留尼汪渡渡鸟(拉丁名Ornithaptera solitaria)
a large American thrush with mainly grey plumage and a short bill 美洲孤鸫
Genus Myadestes, family Turdidae: several species 孤鸫属,鸫科:数种
语源
early 18th cent.: from French, from Latin solitarius (see solitary)