soloadjective [ before noun ], adverb
uk/ˈsəʊ.ləʊ/us/ˈsoʊ.loʊ/B2 alone; without other people:
a solo performance/flight
to sail/fly solo
He used to play with a group but now he's going solo/pursuing a solo career.
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- He made his name in the 90s boy band Boyzone, before going on to a highly successful solo career.
- It's a retrospective album of solo Freddie Mercury tracks.
- This is her first solo album.
- This makes him the biggest-selling solo artist of all time.
- This was his first solo appearance at a public event.
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Alone
- abandon
- apart
- be in a minority of one idiom
- castaway
- deserted
- herself
- himself
- like a shag on a rock idiom
- lone wolf
- lonely
- loner
- lonesome
- shag
- shut
- shut yourself away
- sole
- solely
- solitude
- stag
- themselves
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solonoun [ C ]
uk/ˈsəʊ.ləʊ/us/ˈsoʊ.loʊ/plural solosB2 a musical performance given by one person alone, or a musical performance in which one person is given special attention:
a trumpet solo
Parker's solo on "A Night in Tunisia" was so amazing that the pianist backing him simply stopped playing.
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- A haunting oboe solo introduces the third movement of the concerto.
- Each verse was sung as a solo and then everyone joined in on the chorus.
- We had to sit through a ten-minute drum solo.
- Next up was a tedious guitar solo.
- She had to do a solo in the Christmas concert.
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Musical pieces
- arrangement
- bolero
- bossa nova
- Britannia
- cantata
- fantasia
- melody
- nocturne
- octet
- opus
- passage
- playlist
- reel
- sextet
- signature tune
- song form
- string quartet
- symphony
- trio
- tune
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