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sol

/sɒl//sɔl/

sol noun: in a movable-do or tonic sol-fa system: the fifth step in a scale, preceded by fa and followed by la. Also the clipping of solidarity.

Noun (1)

sol (countable and uncountable, plural sols)

  1. In a movable-do or tonic sol-fa system: the fifth step in a scale, preceded by fa and followed by la.
    • D ſol re, one Cliffe, two notes haue I, / Ela mi, ſhow pitty or I die.c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
    • Ser[vant, i.e., Peter]. Alack alack what ſhal I doe, come Fidlers play me ſome mery dumpe. / I. [First musician]. A ſir, this is no time to play. / […] / Ser. Then will I giue it you, and ſoundly to. / I. What will you giue vs? / Ser. The fidler, Ile re you, Ile fa you, Ile ſol you. / I. If you re...[c. 1591–1595 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] Romeo and Juliet. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, published 1597, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]
  2. In a fixed-do system: the musical note G.

Noun (2)

sol (plural sols)

  1. (historical) An old coin from France and some other countries worth 12 deniers.
    • This fellow, For ſix ſols more, would pleade againſt his Maker.1605 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Volpone, or The Foxe. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616...
    • Moſt of their owne coines that I ſaw were theſe. In gold but one, which is their chiquiney: This piece doth much vary in the value. For ſometimes it is high, ſometimes low. When I was there, a chiquiney was worth eleuen liuers, and twelue ſols. Which counteruaileth eight ſhillings and eight pence...1611, Thomas Coryate [i.e., Thomas Coryat], “My Obseruations of the Most Glorious, Peerelesse, and Mayden Citie of Venice: […]”, in Coryats Crudities Hastily Gobled Vp in Five Moneths Trauells […]...

Noun (3)

sol (plural sols or soles)

  1. (historical) A former Spanish-American silver coin.
    • The Tobacco of this colony is ſo excellent, that if the commerce thereof was free, it would ſell for one hundred ſols and ſix livres the pound, ſo fine and delicate is its juice and flavour.1763, [Antoine-Simon] Le Page du Pratz, “Of the Commerce that Is, and May Be, Carried Out in Louisiana. […]”, in [anonymous], transl., The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Parts of Virginia...
  2. In full nuevo sol or new sol: the main currency unit of Peru which replaced the inti in 1991; also, a coin of this value.

Noun (4)

sol (plural sols)

  1. A solar day on the planet Mars (equivalent to 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35 seconds).
    • I need to create calories. And I need enough to last the 1387 sols until Ares 4 arrives. If I don't get rescued by Ares 4, I'm dead anyway. A sol is 39 minutes longer than a day, so it works out to be 1425 days. That's my target: 1425 days of food.2011, Andy Weir, chapter 3, in The Martian, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Books, published 2014, →ISBN, page 18
    • 88,775 seconds = 24 hours, 39 minutes and 35 seconds / The duration of a synodic day on Mars, a ‘sol’2014, Gerard ’t Hooft, Stefan Vandoren, “10⁵ Seconds = 100,000 Seconds = 1.16 days = 27.78 Hours”, in Saskia A. Eisberg-’t Hooft, transl., Time in Powers of Ten: Natural Phenomena and Their...

Noun (5)

sol (plural sols)

  1. (physical) A type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid.
  2. (obsolete) A solution to an objection (or "ob"), for example, in controversial divinity.
    • [F]or that they had nothing elſe to doe, […] haue coyned a thouſand idle queſtions, nice diſtinctions, Obs and Sols, […]1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Symptomes Generall, Loue to Their Owne Sect, Hate of All Other Religions, […]”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford...
    • Where Hinderſon, and th' other Maſſes / Were ſent to Cap Texts, and Put Caſes: / To paſs for deep, and Learned Scholars, / Although but Paltry, Ob-and-Sollers:[…][1677 (indicated as 1678), [Samuel Butler], “[The Third Part of Hudibras]. Canto II.”, in Hudibras. The Third and Last Part. […], London: […] Robert Horne, […], published 1679, →OCLC; republished in...

Noun (6) capitalized: SOL

SOL (plural SOLs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of statute of limitations.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of speed of light.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of slice of life.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of standards of learning.
  5. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of sleep onset latency.
  6. Space-occupying lesion of the brain can be caused by different pathology such as a malignancy, an abscess or a haematoma
  7. (abbreviation, in plural, initialism) Initialism of stoppages of leave.

Adjective capitalized: SOL

SOL (not comparable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of shit out of luck.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Sol

Sol

  1. (poetic) The Sun, the star orbited by the Earth.
    Synonyms:
    sun
  2. (Roman) The sun god; equivalent of the Greek Helios. Brother of Luna and Aurora.
    Synonyms:
    ☉, ☼
  3. (Norse) The sun goddess.
  4. (nonce-word) A male given name
    • Sol (named after the solar eclipse on the day of his birth) was born in March 2015 with an undetected clot in his upper left arm.2017 March 1, Marc Waddington, “How dad’s bionic arm invention is changing son’s life & prosthetics”, in Daily Post, № 51,073, page 6/2

Noun (7) capitalized: Sol

Sol (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Or (gold), in the postmedieval practice of blazoning the tinctures of certain sovereigns' (especially British monarchs') coats as planets.
    • 4. Luna, a Mantle of Estate, Mars doubled Ermine, ouched Sol, garnished with Strings fastned thereunto fretways dependent, and tasselled of the same. [...] These Arms do belong to the Town of Beckbock in Wales. 5. Jupiter, a Mace of Majestry in Bend Sol.1693, Richard Blome, The Art of Heraldry, in two parts ... second edition ..., pages 76-77
    • George [...] Ist. Mars, three Lions passant guardant in Pale Sol, for the Arms of England, Impal'd with Scotland, i.e. Sol, a Lion rampant within a double Tressure counterflory Mars. 2d. Jupiter, three Fleurs de Lis Sol, for the Arms of France. 3d. Jupiter, an Irish Harp Sol, stringed Luna, for...1718, Samuel Kent, The Grammar of Heraldry … Second Edition
  2. (obsolete) Gold.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Sol

Sol

  1. A diminutive of the male given name Solomon.
    • “Chock full o’ science,” said the radiant Captain, “as ever he was! Sol Gills, Sol Gills, what have you been up to, for this many a long day, my ould boy?”1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC

Also used as

sol is also the clipping of solidarity.

sol meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali

sol in Hindi

सोल, सोल्

sol in Tamil

சோல்

sol in Marathi

सोल, सोल्

sol in Bengali

সোল, সল
More languagesFewer languages
sol in Telugu
సోల్, సొల్
sol in Malayalam
സോൾ, സോല്, സോൽ
sol in Kannada
ಸೋಲ್, ಸೊಲ್
sol in Punjabi
ਸੋਲ
sol in Gujarati
સોલ, સોલ્
sol in Odia
ସୋଲ୍, ସୋଲ
sol in Nepali
सोल, सोल्
sol in Tagalog
maladigkiting kaluswan
sol in Arabic
سُول m or صُول sūl
sol in Vietnamese
son

Examples of sol in a sentence

  • The fidler, Ile re you, Ile fa you, Ile ſol you. / I.[c. 1591–1595 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] Romeo and Juliet. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, published 1597...
  • When I was there, a chiquiney was worth eleuen liuers, and twelue ſols.1611, Thomas Coryate [i.e., Thomas Coryat], “My Obseruations of the Most Glorious, Peerelesse, and Mayden Citie of Venice: […]”, in Coryats...
  • On sol 46 (March 11, 2004 on Earth), Opportunity gathered data on a cluster of blueberries and confirmed the team's suspicions that this area of Mars once contained liquid water.2023, Katie L. Carroll, Selfies From Mars: The True Story of Mars Rover Opportunity, page 2:

Synonyms of sol

Forms of sol

pluralsols
alternative formso
alternative formsoh
pluralsoles
pluralSOLs

Plural of sol: sols

Origin of sol

From Glover's solmization, from Middle English sol (“fifth degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian sol in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin solve (“wash away”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.

Learned borrowing from Old French sol (“French coin”) (modern French sou), from Latin solidum, the accusative singular of solidus (“Roman gold coin; (adjective) solid”). Doublet of sold, soldo, solid, solidus, sou, and xu.

PIE word *sóh₂wl̥ From Spanish sol (“sun”), from Latin sōl (“sun”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”). Doublet of Sol and sol, directly from the Latin.

Words formed from sol

Phrases with sol

3 more phrasesFewer phrases

Words that rhyme with sol

7 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about sol

What does sol mean?
Sol means in a movable-do or tonic sol-fa system: the fifth step in a scale, preceded by fa and followed by la.
What is sol in Hindi?
Sol in Hindi is सोल, सोल्. See Sol meaning in Hindi.
How do you use sol in a sentence?
The fidler, Ile re you, Ile fa you, Ile ſol you. / I.
What part of speech is sol?
Sol can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce sol?
Sol is pronounced /sɒl/ (UK).
What is the plural of sol?
The plural of sol is sols.

Words near sol in the dictionary

  1. Soks
  2. sokubiotoshi
  3. sokushinbutsu
  4. Sokyriany
  5. Sokółka
  6. sol
  7. sol de mayo
  8. sol de mayos
  9. Sol I
  10. Sol II
  11. Sol III

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sol (page history and authors); SOL (page history and authors); Sol (page history and authors); sol (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sol (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sol (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sol (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sol (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sol (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sol (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sol (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sol (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sol (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sol (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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