The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word SOLITARY
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More clues leading to the result SOLITARY
- Thus loving books, palace occupant disappears, shunning company?
- One confused royalist!
- Punishment that sees company barred
- Single bean plant covers wild trail
- A lone hermit
- Very turned on by Ray’s cooked sole
- Mostly reliable sailor with yen to be alone
- Rabid royalist,
- without companions
- Very bright ray bothered one
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The straight part
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What does SOLITARY mean?
SOLITARY noun- One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchoret, hermit or recluse.
- Solitary confinement.
- Living or being by oneself; alone; having no companion present
- Performed, passed, or endured alone
- Not much visited or frequented; remote from society
- Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted
- Gloomy; dismal, because of not being inhabited.
- Single; individual; sole.
- Not associated with others of the same kind.
- The Rodrigues solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria), an extinct flightless bird.