solitaire – English noun declension

English noun forms of solitaire

Noun: solitaire
Singularsolitaire
Pluralsolitaires

Sample Sentences

  • 1722-1723, Alexander Pope, letter to a lady
  • […] he really wishes he had never beheld you, nor yours. You have spoiled him for a solitaire, and a book, all the days of his life; and put him into such a condition, that he thinks of nothing, and enquires of nothing but after a person who has nothing to say to him, and has left him for ever […]
  • The early French solitaire boards were marked with thirty-seven holes instead of the modern board's thirty-three; and the problems were more difficult. [1979, R. C. Bell, Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations, revised edition, New York: Dover Publications, →ISBN, page 100:]
  • You like to sit high on a hill / Count the daisies in the field / It's your own way of playing solitaire / You won't answer no question / Or say where you've been / The last thing you think you need is a friend [1979, Ashford & Simpson, “Stay Free”, in Stay Free (album):]
  • Mr. Greenwood said yesterday that he always finished his work in a timely fashion, and that he played solitaire only when there was nothing else left to do, usually a few times a week or during lunch breaks. [2006 February 10, Winnie Hu, “Solitaire Costs Man His City Job After Bloomberg Sees Computer”, in The New York Times:]
  • I learned to play solitaire as a child. Its advantages over other games were obvious, even then. No need to persuade a friend to play or explain the boring rules, no hard feelings when someone won or lost, no lessons required, no costly equipment to badger my parents into buying. I could play whenever and wherever I wanted. All I needed was a deck of cards. [2013 February 23, Francine Prose, “Solitaire: Me vs. Me”, in The New York Times:]
  • The Times reported ‘two pendant earrings formed of diamond solitaires of great splendor, supporting pear-shaped pearls of proportionate value, capped with brilliants.[…]’ [2006, Clare Phillips, editor, Bejewelled by Tiffany, 1837–1987, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 102:]
  • The fellow wears a ſolitaire, uſes paint, and takes rappee with all the grimace of a French marquis. [1771, [Tobias Smollett], The Expedition of Humphry Clinker […], volume II, London: […] W. Johnston, […]; and B. Collins, […], →OCLC, page 88:]

Etymology

Borrowed from French solitaire, ultimately from Latin sōlitārius. Doublet of solitary. See: French Nouns 'solitaire', Latin Nouns 'sōlitārius'.