SOLIDARITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does solidarity mean? 

• SOLIDARITY (noun)
  The noun SOLIDARITY has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SOLIDARITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOLIDARITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A union of interests or purposes or sympathies among members of a group

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("solidarity" is a kind of...):

commonality; commonness (sharing of common attributes)

 Context examples 

The insidious revolt led by Buck had destroyed the solidarity of the team.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Homogenous dietary habits, together with ritual and funerary practices in which the emphasis was on community rather than the individual, show that Megalithic peoples were characterized by social relations that were fundamentally based on values ​​such as equality, reciprocity, and solidarity.

(Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet finds that, in the prehistoric age, for thousands of years there were no social divisions in food consumption, University of Granada)

It recovered its old-time solidarity, and once more the dogs leaped as one dog in the traces.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

When the butler brought back Wolfshiem's answer I began to have a feeling of defiance, of scornful solidarity between Gatsby and me against them all.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)