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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
alienation, aloneness, aloofness, celibacy, confinement, detachment, emptiness, isolation, keeping apart, loneliness, loneness, lonesomeness, moving apart, privacy, quarantine, remoteness, retirement, seclusion, separateness, sequestration, single blessedness, singleness, solitariness, splendid isolation, wilderness, withdrawal
Dictionary Results for solitude:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
solitude
    n 1: a state of social isolation [syn: solitude, purdah]
    2: the state or situation of being alone
    3: a solitary place

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Solitude \Sol"i*tude\, n. [F., from L. solitudo, solus alone.
   See Sole, a.]
   1. state of being alone, or withdrawn from society; a lonely
      life; loneliness.
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            Whosoever is delighted with solitude is either a
            wild beast or a god.                  --Bacon.
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            O Solitude! where are the charms
            That sages have seen in thy face?     --Cowper.
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   2. Remoteness from society; destitution of company;
      seclusion; -- said of places; as, the solitude of a wood.
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            The solitude of his little parish is become matter
            of great comfort to him.              --Law.
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   3. solitary or lonely place; a desert or wilderness.
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            In these deep solitudes and awful cells
            Where heavenly pensive contemplation dwells. --Pope.
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   Syn: Syn. Loneliness; soitariness; loneness; retiredness;
        recluseness. -- Solitude, Retirement, Seclusion,
        Loneliness.

   Usage: Retirement is a withdrawal from general society,
          implying that a person has been engaged in its scenes.
          Solitude describes the fact that a person is alone;
          seclusion, that he is shut out from others, usually by
          his own choice; loneliness, that he feels the pain and
          oppression of being alone. Hence, retirement is
          opposed to a gay, active, or public life; solitude, to
          society; seclusion, to freedom of access on the part
          of others; and loneliness, enjoyment of that society
          which the heart demands.
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                O blest retirement, friend to life's decline.
                                                  --Goldsmith.
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                Such only can enjoy the country who are capable
                of thinking when they are there; then they are
                prepared for solitude; and in that [the country]
                solitude is prepared for them.    --Dryden.
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                It is a place of seclusion from the external
                world.                            --Bp. Horsley.
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                These evils . . . seem likely to reduce it [a
                city] ere long to the loneliness and the
                insignificance of a village.      --Eustace.
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