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• sol
  sol

  noun

  the syllable used for the fifth tone of a diatonic scale.
• Sol
  Sol

  noun

  an ancient Roman god personifying the sun.
• SOL
  SOL

  abbreviation

  shit out (of ) luck (a euphemistic initialism used to avoid explicit vulgarity). See shit.
• -sol
  -sol

  a combining form meaning “soil” of the kind specified by the initial element.
• sol.
  sol.

  abbreviation

  soluble.
• Sol.
  Sol.

  abbreviation

  Solicitor.

sol

¹ American  

[sohl] / soʊl /

noun

Music.

1. the syllable used for the fifth tone of a diatonic scale.

2. (in the fixed system of solmization) the tone G.

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sol ² American  

[sohl, sol] / soʊl, sɒl /

noun

1. a former coin and money of account of France, the 20th part of a livre and equal to 12 deniers: originally gold, later silver, finally copper, it was discontinued in 1794.

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sol ³ American  

[sohl, sol, sawl] / soʊl, sɒl, sɔl /

noun

sols, plural soles plural

1. a bronze coin and monetary unit of Peru, equal to 100 centavos. S.

2. Also called libra.  a former gold coin of Peru.

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sol ⁴ American  

[sawl, sol] / sɔl, sɒl /

noun

Physical Chemistry.

1. a fluid colloidal solution.

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Sol ⁵ American  

[sol] / sɒl /

noun

1. an ancient Roman god personifying the sun.

2. the sun, personified by the Romans as a god.

3. a male given name, form of Solomon.

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SOL ⁶ American  

Or S.O.L.

abbreviation

Slang.

1. shit out (of ) luck (a euphemistic initialism used to avoid explicit vulgarity). See shit.

2. strictly out (of ) luck.

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-sol ⁷ American  

1. a combining form meaning “soil” of the kind specified by the initial element.

   spodosol.

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sol. ⁸ American  

abbreviation

1. soluble.

2. solution.

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Sol. ⁹ American  

abbreviation

1. Solicitor.

2. Bible. Song of Solomon.

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Sol ¹ British  

/ sɒl /

noun

1. Greek counterpart: Helios.  the Roman god personifying the sun

2. a poetic word for the sun

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Sol. ² British  

abbreviation

1. Also: Solr.  solicitor

2. Bible Solomon

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sol ³ British  

/ səʊl /

noun

1. short for new sol

2. a former French copper or silver coin, usually worth 12 deniers

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sol ⁴ British  

/ sɒl /

noun

1. music another name for soh

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sol ⁵ British  

/ sɒl /

noun

1. a colloid that has a continuous liquid phase, esp one in which a solid is suspended in a liquid

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sol ⁶ British  

/ sɒl /

noun

1. astronomy a solar day as measured on the planet Mars, equal to 24.65 hours

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• soles
  plural
• sols
  plural

Etymology

Origin of sol¹

First recorded in 1275–1325; Middle English, from Latin solve “free”; see origin at gamut

Origin of sol²

First recorded in 1575–85; from Old French sol ( French sou ), from Late Latin solidus; compare Italian soldo, Spanish sueldo; see origin at solidus ¹

Origin of sol³

First recorded in 1880–85; from Spanish: literally, “sun,” from Latin sōl

Origin of sol⁴

First recorded in 1895–1900; shortened form of hydrosol

Origin of -sol⁷

From the Latin word solum soil

Example Sentences

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sol Sol SOL sol. Sol. soles sols

Perseverance covered the marathon distance after five years and four months of driving, reaching the mark on the 1,890th Martian day, or sol, of its mission.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026

Velarde built a war chest of foreign reserves to solidify the sol.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

The word 'solstice' comes from the Latin sol, meaning 'sun', and sistere - to 'stand still'.

From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2025

To achieve that, Cardinals turf manager Andy Levy arranged for 200 gallons of paint in the Rams’ royal blue and sol yellow to adorn the field and end zones.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2025

So I'm labeling each sample by the current sol.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

OpenAI was testing its state-of-the-art model, called GPT‑5.6 Sol, and another more capable one that hasn’t been released.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Kimi K3 currently charges $15 for every million tokens of output — compared to OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol, which charges $30, and Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5, which charges $50.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026

After Beckham's red, England bravely hung on and even thought they had won it when Sol Campbell headed home in the 81st minute, only for it it to be ruled out for a push.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

Lasser was born in New York City on April 11, 1939, to parents Sol Jay Lasser, a tax specialist, and Paula Lasser, a designer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

A few academics like Jacques Monod and Sol Spiegelman were enthusiastic speakers, but generally there was so much droning that he found it hard to stay alert for the new facts he should pick up.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

Among other initiatives, the grant funded a counselor position and the creation of Project SOL, a program designed to support students pursuing a degree in science, technology, engineering or math.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025

The amendment allowed schools to average their most recent SOL results with scores from the two years before the pandemic.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2022

Last week it allowed digital coins XRP, ADA and SOL to be withdrawn.

From Reuters ● Aug. 8, 2022

That same year, 77% of Hispanic fourth-graders passed the SOL math test compared to 36% who passed the NAEP.

From Washington Times ● May 19, 2022

LOG ENTRY: SOL 207 I spent the last week recovering from back problems.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

A moment and you will see: sol, mi, fa, sol. . . there it is, in the groove, the true groove.

From Time Magazine Archive

"He's already fifty kilometers into the storm, and he'll go another ninety kilometers per sol. He'll get in too deep to recover soon."

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

Ob., for objection, just as sol. for solution, on the margins of old books of controversial divinity.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Calculate the percentage of potassium oxide in an impure sample of potassium carbonate from the following data: Weight of sample = 1.00 gram; HCl sol. used = 55.90 cc.;

From An Introductory Course of Quantitative Chemical Analysis With Explanatory Notes by Talbot, Henry P.

Therefore each fiorino d'oro largo ought to = 5 lire 6 sol., which by the tables of the time it actually did.

From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur

In the Puerta del Sol. he was greeted by trumpeters, and again in front of the Cortes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sol., you like to make money and so do I, and it don't matter much how we make it, either.

From Four Years A Scout and Spy by Downs, E. C.

The fear of being sold prompted Sol. to flee.

From The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by Still, William

Every eye turned instinctively to Sol.; he answered only those of Jenny's.

From Colonel Starbottle's Client by Harte, Bret

For thou lovest all things that are and abhorrest nothing which thou hast made; for never wouldst thou have made any thing, if thou hadst hated it, Wis. of Sol. xi.

From Biblical Extracts Or, The Holy Scriptures Analyzed; Showing its Contradictions, Absurdities, and Immoralities by Cooper, Robert

The shoes sport chunky soles with rigid, curved carbon plates and lightweight foam, and Nike asserts they improve running economy by as much as 4%.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2026

The soles of Hannah Cox's trainers tell their own story.

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026

When super shoes debuted a decade ago, their chunky soles and springy inside plates revolutionized the world of running.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026

She will re-glue the soles of her shoes so they last a little longer.

From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2026

Road stones crunched under the soles of my shoes.

From "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart

During Perseverance's drives on the 1,707 and 1,709 Martian days, known as sols, the mission team shifted that responsibility to generative AI.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 31, 2026

Ingenuity is slated for a maximum of five flights over a period of 30 sols, but if it flies just once, says Tzanetos, “we’ll all go out and celebrate.”

From Slate ● Feb. 17, 2021

Before the outbreak, she earned around 45 sols a day — around $13 — collecting fares on a combi, one of the ramshackle minibuses that serve as public transport here.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2020

Recently, we reported on the use of tetraethylammonium-hydroxide silica sols to achieve homoepitaxial growth on exfoliated MFI nanosheets33.

From Nature ● Mar. 14, 2017

For the past two sols, the batteries have taken longer to recharge.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

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