There are four varieties of commercially viable coffee: Arabica, Liberica, Excelsa, and Robusta. Growers predominantly plant the Arabica species. Although less popular, Robusta tastes slightly more bitter and contains more caffeine.
SOLITUDE
solitude
(noun) a solitary place
solitude
(noun) the state or situation of being alone
solitude, purdah
(noun) a state of social isolation
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
solitude (countable and uncountable, plural solitudes)
Aloneness; state of being alone or solitary, by oneself.
Synonym: aloneness
Antonym: intimacy
A lonely or deserted place.
Anagrams
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Source: Wiktionary
Sol"i*tude, n. Etym: [F., from L. solitudo, solus alone. See Sole, a.]
1. state of being alone, or withdrawn from society; a lonely life; loneliness. Whosoever is delighted with solitude is either a wild beast or a god. Bacon. O Solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face Cowper.
2. Remoteness from society; destitution of company; seclusion; -- said of places; as, the solitude of a wood. The solitude of his little parish is become matter of great comfort to him. Law.
3. solitary or lonely place; a desert or wilderness. In these deep solitudes and awful cells Where heavenly pensive contemplation dwells. Pope.
Syn. Loneliness; soitariness; loneness; retiredness; recluseness.
– Solitude, Retirement, Seclusion, Loneliness. Retirement is a withdrawal from general society, implying that a person has been engaged in its scenes. Solitude describes the fact that a person is alone; seclusion, that he is shut out from others, usually by his own choice; loneliness, that he feels the pain and oppression of being alone. Hence, retirement is opposed to a gay, active, or public life; solitude, to society; seclusion, to freedom of access on the part of others; and loneliness, enjoyment of that society which the heart demands. O blest retirement, friend to life's decline. Goldsmith. Such only can enjoy the country who are capable of thinking when they are there; then they are prepared for solitude; and in that [the country] solitude is prepared for them. Dryden. It is a place of seclusion from the external world. Bp. Horsley. These evils . . . seem likely to reduce it [a city] ere long to the loneliness and the insignificance of a village. Eustace.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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