- a piece of music, dance or entertainment performed by only one person
- The song features an extended guitar solo.
- the opening piano solo
- She sang a solo at the school concert.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- extended
- lengthy
- long
- …
- do
- perform
- dance
- …
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- a flight in which the pilot flies alone without an instructor (= teacher)
Word Originlate 17th cent. (as a musical term): from Italian, from Latin solus ‘alone’.
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