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# solitude

noun (solitude — usually uncountable)

«solitude» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Solitude is being alone, usually in a quiet, peaceful way that you have chosen. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/solitude/#m1)
2. Solitude can also mean a lonely, empty place where few people go (formal, in stories and poems). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/solitude/#m2)

### In the lessons

In stories it describes a character who likes or suffers being alone: a hermit, a lighthouse keeper, a person lost in the woods. In everyday life it means quiet time to think, read or rest. Phrases: in solitude, peace and solitude, enjoy solitude.

### Examples

- After the busy party, Ella enjoyed an hour of solitude in her room. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/solitude/#x1)
- The old lighthouse keeper lived in solitude on the rock. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/solitude/#x2)
- Some people find solitude peaceful, others find it lonely. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/solitude/#x3)
- He walked in the woods for peace and solitude. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/solitude/#x4)
- Cats often seem to like their solitude. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/solitude/#x5)
- She wrote her poems in solitude by the lake. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/solitude/#x6)
- The prince walked on in solitude till he reached the city. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/solitude/#x7)

### Note

Solitude is not the same as loneliness: solitude is being alone (often by choice and pleasant); loneliness is feeling sad because you have no one. It is uncountable: «a lot of solitude», not «solitudes» (except in poems).

## In Jewish tradition

It is one of the pairs of opposites tied to the double letters, as in fertility and desolation.

**Interpretation.** Each double letter is read as holding both a good and a bad outcome, like a power that can be used well or badly.

### Examples

- They are called Double, because each letter presents a contrast or permutation; thus Life and Death; Peace and War (Evil); Wisdom and Folly; Riches and Poverty; Grace and Indignation; Fertility and Solitude (Desolation); Power and Servitude. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/solitude/#x1)

### Note

Solitude is not the same as loneliness: solitude is being alone (often by choice and pleasant); loneliness is feeling sad because you have no one. It is uncountable: «a lot of solitude», not «solitudes» (except in poems).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «solitude» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/solitude/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«solitude» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/solitude.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «solitude» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/solitude/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«solitude» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/solitude.html) on Mova free.