Dictionary entry

Solidarity

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Sol′i‐dar″i‐ty (?), n. [F. solidarité, fr. solide. See Solid.] An entire union or consolidation of interests and responsibilities; fellowship; community.

Solidarity, 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. Trench.

The solidarity... of Breton and Welsh poetry. M. Arnold.