🎼 For one performer 🎸 A performance alone 🧑‍🦯 Alone ✈️ A flight alone ✈️ To fly alone 🎸 To perform alone

solo

27 5.1

A flight by a pilot alone without anyone else on board

noun
/ˈsoʊloʊ/

: vuelo en solitario

Engaging the bow, she launched into the hardest passage of her solo: sinuous quick changes, lightning triple-stops.

Examples

Moreover, the advertisement for the first concert specified that she would "play a solo on the viol da gamba."

Academic text (1998)
Charles completed his first solo flight in under two hours, proudly navigating the aircraft alone.
First man to fly the length of the Mississippi solo.

A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
Students are required to prepare a solo for the state solo festival and to participate in a large ensemble.

Academic text (2009)
As a middle school choral conductor-teacher, I required my students to participate in our school solo and ensemble festival.

Academic text (2009)
She felt a sense of accomplishment after finishing the solo flight across the country by herself.
During his training, he successfully performed a solo flight, demonstrating his skills as a pilot.

Compounds

solo homer

Jargon

1 6.5

A home run hit when no one is on base that scores one run

shred guitar solo

Jargon

7.9

A very fast guitar solo that shows great skill

solo blast

Jargon

6.4

A home run with no other players on base that scores one run

Solo man

Specialized

9.9

An extinct early human known from fossils found in Java

Surface Forms

solo singular

solos plural

Etymology

Solo comes from the Latin solus, meaning 'alone', the same root as English sole ('only'). So a pilot's first solo is a flight where they are the only person on board.