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sol⋅i⋅dar⋅i⋅ty

[sol-i-dar-i-tee]
–noun, plural -ties.
1. union or fellowship arising from common responsibilities and interests, as between members of a group or between classes, peoples, etc.: to promote solidarity among union members.
2. community of feelings, purposes, etc.
3. community of responsibilities and interests.

Origin:
1840–50; < F solidarité, equiv. to solidaire solidary + -ité -ity


1. unity, cooperation, community. 2. unanimity.

Sol⋅i⋅dar⋅i⋅ty

[sol-i-dar-i-tee]
–noun
a Polish organization of independent trade unions founded in 1980: outlawed by the government of Poland in 1982.
Polish, So⋅li⋅dar⋅ność [saw-lee-dahr-nawshch] .
sol·i·dar·i·ty   (sŏl'ĭ-dār'ĭ-tē)   
n.  A union of interests, purposes, or sympathies among members of a group; fellowship of responsibilities and interests: "A downtrodden class ... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity" (H.G. Wells).

[French solidarité, from solidaire, interdependent, from Old French, in common, from Latin solidus, solid, whole; see solid.]

Solidarity

Sol`i*dar"i*ty\, n. [F. solidarit['e], fr. solide. See Solid.] An entire union or consolidation of interests and responsibilities; fellowship; community.

Solidarity [a word which we owe to the French Communists], signifies a fellowship in gain and loss, in honor and dishonor, in victory and defeat, a being, so to speak, all in the same boat. --Trench.

The solidarity . . . of Breton and Welsh poetry. --M. Arnold.
Language Translation for : solidarity
Spanish: solidaridad,
German: der Zusammenhalt,
Japanese: 団結

Solidarity

A labor union in Poland, independent of the government and of the Polish Communist party, that grew to a membership of several million in the early 1980s. Led by Lech Walesa, Solidarity pushed for many reforms and played a major part in the ouster of communism in Poland and its replacement by a multiparty, democratic government. The movement's influence began to decline in the 1990s.


solidarity 
1841, from Fr. solidarité "mutual responsibility," a coinage of the "Encyclopédie" (1765), from solidaire "interdependent, complete, entire," from solide (see solid). With a capital S-, the name of an independent trade union movement in Poland, formed Sept. 1980 and officially banned Oct. 1982, from Pol. Solidarność.

Main Entry: sol·i·dar·i·ty
Pronunciation: "sä-l&-'dar-&-tE
Function: noun
in the civil law of Louisiana : the quality or state of being solidary : existence of a solidary obligation solidarity>
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