solo

1. 1.

   fly alone, without a co-pilot or passengers

   Broaderfly

   air travel

2. 2.

   perform a piece written for a single instrument

   Broaderperform

1. 1.

   composed or performed by a single voice or instrument

   “a passage for solo clarinet”

   Similarunaccompanied

   music

1. 1.

   without anybody else or anything else

   “the child stayed home alone”

   “the pillar stood alone, supporting nothing”

   “he flew solo”

   Synonymsaloneunaccompanied

Other forms of solo

plural

soli

past tense

soloed·

present participle

soloing·

third person

soloes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about solo

What does solo mean?

solo means "any activity that is performed alone without assistance". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in solo?

solo has 2 syllables: so-lo. The stress falls on "so". In IPA it is /ˈsoʊˌloʊ/.

What is another word for solo?

Close synonyms include alone, unaccompanied. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is solo a common word?

solo is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with solo?

17 words rhyme with solo. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.