One, with nothing else around it: a single figure in an empty space, and no second figure anywhere in sight.
From the word’s history
From Latin sōlitārius, built on sōlus "alone" — the same root that gives sole and solo.
一種看法是：這個字經中古英語 solitarie 從拉丁文 sōlitārius 來，底下的字根是 sōlus（單獨的），和 sole、solo 同一家。所以「只有一個」不是後來引申的，而是這個字從頭到尾在說的那件事。
Wiktionary entry for "solitary" (Middle English solitarie < Latin sōlitārius), as supplied in the payload origin note
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原始詞典資料11 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
solitarynoun詞源 1/ˈsɑlɪˌtɛɹi/
- 1
One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchorite, hermit or recluse.
- He brooded and intrigued fantastically. He was becoming one of the big-time solitaries. And he wasn't meant to be a solitary. He was meant to be in active life, a social creature.
- 2
The state of being solitary; solitude
- You must wonder why I'm relentless and all strung out/I'm consumed by the chill of solitary
solitaryadj詞源 1/ˈsɑlɪˌtɛɹi/
- 1
Living or being by oneself; alone; having no companion present
- The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
- Though we don’t all reach nirvana when we swim, swimming may well be that last refuge from connectivity — and, for some, the only way to find the solitary self.
- 2
Performed, passed, or endured alone.
- a solitary journey
- a solitary life
- 3
Not much visited or frequented; remote from society
- a solitary residence or place
- 4
Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted
- the solitary desert
- How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people!
- 5
Gloomy; dismal, because of not being inhabited.
- 6
Single; individual; sole.
- a solitary example
- On once more we swung, bumping uneasily along in the antique narrow-gauge coach, with gloomy woods and gathering night outside, shouts and songs (and quacks) inside—this was not at all the sort of train ordained by the logical strategists in Paris—then grinding to a stop at a mysterious halt which was no more than a nameboard in the pinewoods, without even a footpath leading to it, but nevertheless with a solitary passenger stolidly waiting.
- 7
biologybotanynatural-sciencesNot associated with others of the same kind.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- solitary confinement
- solitaire
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。