English-French translations for solitary

• seul
  Tout le monde sait que les votes en solitaire ont pour seul effet l'isolement politique. However, it is well known that solitary voting never achieved anything other than political isolation.
  En ce qui concerne les conditions qui existent, par exemple, en République tchèque, je ne connais qu'un seul auteur "autorisé" à être un artiste professionnel. As for the conditions that exist in, say, the Czech Republic, I know of only one solitary author who is 'allowed' to be a professional artist.
  M. Vanunu est déjà enfermé seul depuis plus de dix ans dans une cellule exiguë sous prétexte qu'il représenterait encore un risque pour la sécurité après une si longue période. Mr Vanunu has been in solitary confinement in a small cell for more than ten years because of the alleged security risk that he is said to represent ten years after the event.
• solitaire
  Tout le monde sait que les votes en solitaire ont pour seul effet l'isolement politique. However, it is well known that solitary voting never achieved anything other than political isolation.
  Bien qu'il n'ait surpris personne, le vote solitaire des États-Unis contre la résolution qui a lancé le processus est un geste regrettable. Although it came as no surprise, the solitary vote against the resolution that launched the process, by the United States, was sad.
  On peut en dire de même du chancelier Schröder, dont nous avons bloqué, Dieu merci, la tentative solitaire d’assouplissement de l’embargo sur les armes. The same can be said of Chancellor Schröder, to whose solitary attempt at relaxing the arms embargo we have, thank God, put a stop.
• désert
• esseulé
• seule

Definition of solitary

• One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchoret, hermit or recluse
• Living or being by oneself; alone; having no companion present
• Performed, passed, or endured alone
• Not much visited or frequented; remote from society
• Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted
• gloomy; dismal, because of not being inhabited
• Not associated with others of the same kind
• The Rodrigues solitaire , an extinct flightless bird

Examples

• The prisoners who started the riot were moved to solitary.
• a solitary journey
• a solitary life
• a solitary residence or place
• the solitary desert
• a solitary example

Related words

• Solitary Tinamou
• Solitary Eagle
• Solitary Snipe
• Solitary Sandpiper
• Solitary Cacique
• solitary confinement
• solitary sandpiper
• solitary tinamoe
• solitary person