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isolato

isolato noun: an isolated person; a hermit or outsider.

Noun

isolato (plural isolatos or isolatoes)

  1. An isolated person; a hermit or outsider.
    • At the same time, Woolson clearly portrays the danger Fog courted by remaining isolated in his castle, for if no stranger had ever come for Silver, when Fog died of old age she would have starved to death. In this paradox of strength and naiveté inevitably forced to face death or return to society...1999, Laurie Lanzen Harris, Nineteenth-century Literature Criticism, volume 82, page 335
    • Moreover, whereas Oppen was often at the center of literary activity, Bronk was something of an isolato — not quite in the mold of a Dickinson, but not so very far from it either. He had no interest in "poetics" or in literary politics and only the most tangential relations to any school or circle...2009, Henry Weinfield, The Music of Thought in the Poetry of George Oppen and William Bronk

Examples of isolato in a sentence

  • In this paradox of strength and naiveté inevitably forced to face death or return to society, Woolson admits that to remain an isolato on an island is to refuse to acknowledge reality.1999, Laurie Lanzen Harris, Nineteenth-century Literature Criticism, volume 82, page 335:
  • Moreover, whereas Oppen was often at the center of literary activity, Bronk was something of an isolato — not quite in the mold of a Dickinson, but not so very far from it either.2009, Henry Weinfield, The Music of Thought in the Poetry of George Oppen and William Bronk:

Forms of isolato

pluralisolatos
pluralisolatoes

Questions about isolato

What does isolato mean?
Isolato means an isolated person; a hermit or outsider.
How do you use isolato in a sentence?
In this paradox of strength and naiveté inevitably forced to face death or return to society, Woolson admits that to remain an isolato on an island is to refuse to acknowledge reality.
What part of speech is isolato?
Isolato is a noun.
What is the plural of isolato?
The plural of isolato is isolatos.

Words near isolato in the dictionary

  1. isolations
  2. isolationship
  3. isolationships
  4. isolatitude
  5. isolative
  6. isolato
  7. isolatoes
  8. isolator
  9. isolators
  10. isolatos
  11. isolaulimalide

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