solo

Meanings

Noun

• A piece of music for one performer.
• A job or performance done by one person alone.
• A card game similar to whist in which each player plays against the others in turn without a partner
• A single shot of espresso.
• An instance of soloing the football.

Adjective

• Without a companion or instructor.
• Of, or relating to, a musical solo.

Adverb

• Alone, without a companion.

Verb

• To perform a solo.
• To perform something in the absence of anyone else.
• To drop the ball and then toe-kick it upward into the hands.

Origin

• Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin sōlus, probably related to se.