solitaire

n. card game for one player, patience; diamond or other gem placed in a setting by itself (in a ring or other piece of jewelry)

This article is about the solitaire family of card games. For the popular computer versions, see Klondike and Spider Solitaire. For the Microsoft Windows versions, see Solitaire (Windows) and Spider Solitaire (Windows). For other meanings, see Solitaire (disambiguation). Solitaire or patience is any of a family of single-player card games of a generally similar character, but varying greatly in detail. The games are generally referred to as "patience" in British English and "solitaire" in American English.
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Noun
1. a gem (usually a diamond) in a setting by itself
(hypernym) jewel, gem, precious stone
2. extinct flightless bird related to the dodo
(synonym) Pezophaps solitaria
(hypernym) columbiform bird
(member-holonym) Pezophaps, genus Pezophaps
3. dull gray North American thrushes noted for its beautiful song
(hypernym) thrush
(member-holonym) Myadestes, genus Myadestes
4. a card game played by one person
(synonym) patience
(hypernym) card game, cards
(hyponym) canfield

adj. solitary, lonely; desolate, lone, private; reclusive, secluded

n. solitaire, hermit, solitary; lone, recluse

(n.)
Any species of American thrushlike birds of the genus Myadestes. They are noted their sweet songs and retiring habits. Called also fly-catching thrush. A West Indian species (Myadestes sibilans) is called the invisible bird.
  

(n.)
A single diamond in a setting; also, sometimes, a precious stone of any kind set alone.
  

(n.)
A person who lives in solitude; a recluse; a hermit.
  

(n.)
A large extinct bird (Pezophaps solitaria) which formerly inhabited the islands of Mauritius and Rodrigeuz. It was larger and taller than the wild turkey. Its wings were too small for flight. Called also solitary.
  

(n.)
A game which one person can play alone; -- applied to many games of cards, etc.; also, to a game played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by "jumping," as in draughts.