solo
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
solo/ˈsəʊləʊ/
▶noun (pl. solos)
- 1 (pl. solos or soli) a piece of music, song, or dance for one performer.
- 2 an unaccompanied flight by a pilot.
- 3 (also solo whist) a card game resembling whist in which the players make bids and the highest bidder plays against the others.
■ a bid by which a player undertakes to win five tricks in this game.
- 4 a motorbike without a sidecar.
- 1 perform a solo.
- 2 fly an aircraft unaccompanied.
– origin C17: from Ital., from L. solus ‘alone’.
'solo' also found in these Oxford entries:
abundance
- aria
- Boston
- break
- cachucha
- cadenza
- cantor
- concertante
- concertino
- concerto
- concerto grosso
- double concerto
- Highland fling
- impromptu
- intermezzo
- lick
- lied
- misère
- partita
- roulade
- scena
- shanty
- soli
- soloist
- solo stop
- variation
- voluntary
