Meaning & use
solitaire
A card game designed to be played alone, or a single gemstone set by itself in jewelry.
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She passed the long flight playing solitaire on her tablet.
He proposed with a ring featuring a single diamond solitaire.
A note on using this word
The card-game sense and the jewelry sense are unrelated; context makes clear which is meant.
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