solidarity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: sol=i=dar=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

solidarity, n. [F. solidarité, fr. solide. See Solid.].

 An entire union or consolidation of interests and responsibilities; fellowship; community.  [1913 Webster]
"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."  [1913 Webster]
"The solidarity . . . of Breton and Welsh poetry."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

solidarity, n.
1 unity or agreement of feeling or action, esp. among individuals with a common interest.
2 mutual dependence.

Etymology

F solidarit{eacute} f. solidaire f. solide SOLID

THESAURUS

solidarity

accord, accordance, affinity, agape, agreement, amity, bipartisanship, bonds of harmony, brotherly love, camaraderie, caritas, cement of friendship, charity, coaction, coadjuvancy, coadministration, coagency, cochairmanship, codirectorship, cohesion, cohesiveness, collaboration, collaborativeness, collectivism, collusion, combination, commensalism, common effort, common enterprise, communalism, communion, communism, communitarianism, community, community of interest, community of interests, compatibility, completeness, complicity, comprehensiveness, comradeship, concert, concord, concordance, concurrence, congeniality, cooperation, cooperativeness, correspondence, duet, duumvirate, ecumenicalism, ecumenicism, ecumenism, empathy, entireness, entirety, esprit, esprit de corps, exhaustiveness, feeling of identity, fellow feeling, fellowship, firmness, fixity, frictionlessness, fusion, good vibes, good vibrations, happy family, harmony, identity, inclusiveness, individuality, indivisibility, intactness, integrality, integration, integrity, inviolability, irreducibility, joining of forces, joint effort, joint operation, kinship, like-mindedness, love, mass action, morale, mutual assistance, mutualism, mutuality, octet, omnipresence, oneness, organic unity, particularity, peace, pervasiveness, pooling, pooling of resources, pulling together, purity, quartet, quintet, rapport, rapprochement, reciprocity, selfsameness, septet, sextet, sharing, simplicity, single-mindedness, singleness, singleness of purpose, singularity, sodality, solidification, solidity, symbiosis, sympathy, symphony, synergism, synergy, team spirit, teamwork, thoroughness, togetherness, totality, trio, triumvirate, troika, ubiquity, unanimity, understanding, undividedness, unification, uniformity, union, uniqueness, unison, united action, unity, universality, univocity, wholeness

ROGET THESAURUS

solidarity

Completeness

N completeness, completion, integration, allness, entirety, perfection, solidity, solidarity, unity, all, ne plus ultra, ideal, limit, complement, supplement, make-weight, filling, up, impletion, saturation, saturity, high water, high tide, flood tide, spring tide, fill, load, bumper, bellyful, brimmer, sufficiency, complete, entire, whole, perfect, full, good, absolute, thorough, plenary, solid, undivided, with all its parts, all- sided, exhaustive, radical, sweeping, thorough-going, dead, regular, consummate, unmitigated, sheer, unqualified, unconditional, free, abundant, brimming, brimful, topful, topfull, chock full, choke full, as full as an egg is of meat, as full as a vetch, saturated, crammed, replete, fraught, laden, full-laden, full-fraught, full-charged, heavy laden, completing, supplemental, supplementary, ascititious, completely, altogether, outright, wholly, totally, in toto, quite, all out, over head and ears, effectually, for good and all, nicely, fully, through thick and thin, head and shoulders, neck and heel, neck and crop, in all respects, in every respect, at all points, out and out, to all intents and purposes, toto coelo, utterly, clean, clean as a whistle, to the full, to the utmost, to the backbone, hollow, stark, heart and soul, root and branch, down to the ground, to the top of one's bent, as far as possible, a outrance, throughout, from first to last, from beginning to end, from end to end, from one end to the other, from Dan to Beersheba, from head to foot, from top to toe, from top to bottom, de fond en comble, a fond, a capite ad calcem, ab ovo usque ad mala, fore and aft, every, whit, every inch, cap-a-pie, to the end of the chapter, up to the brim, up to the ears, up to the eyes, as a as can be, on all accounts, sous tous les rapports, with a vengeance, with a witness, falsus in uno falsus in omnibus, false in one thing, false in everything, omnem movere lapidem, una scopa nuova spazza bene.

Party

N party, faction, side, denomination, communion, set, crew, band, horde, posse, phalanx, family, clan, team, tong, council, community, body, fellowship, sodality, solidarity, confraternity, familistere, familistery, brotherhood, sisterhood, knot, gang, clique, ring, circle, group, crowd, in-crowd, coterie, club, casino, machine, Tammany, Tammany Hall, corporation, corporate body, guild, establishment, company, copartnership, partnership, firm, house, joint concern, joint-stock company, cahoot, combine, trust, society, association, institute, institution, union, trades union, league, syndicate, alliance, Verein, Bund, Zollverein, combination, Turnverein, league offensive and defensive, alliance offensive and defensive, coalition, federation, confederation, confederacy, junto, cabal, camarilla, camorra, brigue, freemasonry, party spirit, Confederates, Conservatives, Democrats, Federalists, Federals, Freemason, Knight Templar, Kuklux, Kuklux Klan, KKK, Liberals, Luddites, Republicans, Socialists, Tories, Whigs staff, dramatis personae, in league, in partnership, in alliance, bonded together, banded together, linked, joined together, embattled, confederated, federative, joint, hand in hand, side by side, shoulder to shoulder, en masse, in the same boat.