noun
Meaning 1
A person who performs a solo.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
soloist
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Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
A solo artist, one who is not in a band.
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noun
Meaning 3
a musician who performs a solo
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: musician, instrumentalist, player
Narrower terms: recitalist
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English solo Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English soloist From solo + -ist.
Across languages
Translations
35 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: մենակատար (menakatar) — a person who performs a solo
- Bulgarian: солист (solist) — a person who performs a solo
- Chinese Mandarin: 獨唱者 /独唱者 (dúchàng zhě) — a person who performs a solo
- Czech: sólista — a person who performs a solo
- Dutch: solist — a person who performs a solo
- Esperanto: solisto — a person who performs a solo
- Finnish: solisti — a person who performs a solo
- French: soliste — a person who performs a solo
- German: Solist — a person who performs a solo
- German: Solistin — a person who performs a solo
- Hungarian: szólista — a person who performs a solo
- Icelandic: einleikari — a person who performs a solo
- Icelandic: sólisti — a person who performs a solo
- Irish: ceoltóir aonair — a person who performs a solo
- Italian: solista — a person who performs a solo
- Japanese: ソリスト (sorisuto) — a person who performs a solo
- Japanese: 独唱者 (dokushōsha) — a person who performs a solo
- Macedonian: соли́ст (solíst) — a person who performs a solo
- Macedonian: соли́стка (solístka) — a person who performs a solo
- Māori: kaiwaiata takitahi — a person who performs a solo
- Māori: kaiwhakatangi takitahi — a person who performs a solo
- Māori: kaiwhakatene — a person who performs a solo
- Norwegian Bokmål: solist — a person who performs a solo
- Norwegian Nynorsk: solist — a person who performs a solo
- Polish: solista — a person who performs a solo
- Polish: solistka — a person who performs a solo
- Portuguese: solista — a person who performs a solo
- Romanian: solist — a person who performs a solo
- Romanian: solistă — a person who performs a solo
- Russian: соли́ст (solíst) — a person who performs a solo
- Russian: соли́стка (solístka) — a person who performs a solo
- Slovene: solist — a person who performs a solo
- Slovene: solistka — a person who performs a solo
- Spanish: solista — a person who performs a solo
- Swedish: solist — a person who performs a solo
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