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isolato

[ ahy-suh-ley-toh ]

noun

, plural i·so·la·toes.
  1. a person who is physically or spiritually isolated from society or out of sympathy with the times:

    In more recent literature, typical heroes are the exile, the expatriate, the resistance fighter, the isolato, the haunted rebel.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of isolato1

First recorded in 1850–55; from Italian, from Latin insulātus; insulate

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