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# solo

«solo» in Mova's school dictionary: **A piece of music, dance or a performance done by one…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a solo, solos); adjective (a solo flight); adverb (fly solo)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A piece of music, dance or a performance done by one person alone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/solo/#m1)

2) (adjective) Done by one person without help: a solo trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/solo/#m2)

3) (adverb) Alone: She sailed solo round the world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/solo/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In music lessons, a pupil sings a solo in the concert. In everyday life, going solo means doing something by yourself. Phrases: a guitar solo, go solo, fly solo.

### examples

- Amy sang a solo in the school concert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/solo/#x1)
- He sailed solo across the ocean. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/solo/#x2)
- The drummer played a long solo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/solo/#x3)
- I did the project solo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/solo/#x4)
- It was her first solo flight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/solo/#x5)
- The singer left the band to go solo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/solo/#x6)
- Then the elfin girls had to dance, first in the usual way, and then with stamping feet, which they performed very well; then followed the artistic and solo dance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/solo/#x7)

### note

Plural: solos (not soloes). Person: soloist. From Italian for «alone». Maths: solo means one person, so 1.

### In the corpora

- [Teachers often give a solo to the child most ready for that piece, and many swap solos around during the year.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/1-music-lessons-and-the-recorder/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «solo» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/solo/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.