Solidarity - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Solidarity :  (noun)

1: a union of interests or purposes or sympathies among members of a group

Based on WordNet 2.0

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.

Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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