different between solitary vs hidden

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?l?t??i/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?l?t?i/

Etymology 1

From Middle English [Term?], borrowed from Latin s?lit?rius.

Noun

solitary (countable and uncountable, plural solitaries)

1. (countable) One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchoret, hermit or recluse.
   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 24]:

     He brooded and intrigued fantastically. He was becoming one of the big-time solitaries. And he wasn't meant to be a solitary. He was meant to be in active life, a social creature.

2. (uncountable) Solitary confinement.

   The prisoners who started the riot were moved to solitary.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:recluse

Translations

Adjective

solitary (not comparable)

1. Living or being by oneself; alone; having no companion present
2. Performed, passed, or endured alone

3. Not much visited or frequented; remote from society

4. Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted
   • 1769, Bible (King James Version), Lamentations 1.1

     How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people!
5. gloomy; dismal, because of not being inhabited.
6. Single; individual; sole.
7. (botany) Not associated with others of the same kind.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

solitary

1. (archaic) The Rodrigues solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria), an extinct flightless bird.

Anagrams

• royalist

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: h?d?n, IPA^(key): /?h?d(?)n/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?h?dn/

• Rhymes: -?d?n

Verb

hidden

1. past participle of hide

Adjective

hidden (comparative more hidden, superlative most hidden)

1. Located or positioned out of sight; not visually apparent.
2. Obscure. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:hidden

Antonyms

• See Thesaurus:hidden

Derived terms

• hidden tax

Translations

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German huoten, from Proto-Germanic *h?dijan?. Cognate with German hüten, Dutch hoeden, and English heed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hiden/, [?hid?n]
• Rhymes: -id?n

Verb

hidden (third-person singular present hitt, past participle gehitt, auxiliary verb hunn)

1. (transitive) to tend, to mind, to look after

Conjugation