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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Solemn \Sol"emn\, a. [OE. solempne, OF. solempne, L. solemnis,
     solennis, sollemnis, sollennis; sollus all, entire + annus a
     year; properly, that takes place every year; -- used
     especially of religious solemnities. Cf. Silly, Annual.]
     1. Marked with religious rites and pomps; enjoined by, or
        connected with, religion; sacred.
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              His holy rites and solemn feasts profaned. --Milton.
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              The worship of this image was advanced, and a solemn
              supplication observed everry year.    --Bp.
                                                    Stillingfleet.
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     2. Pertaining to a festival; festive; festal. [Obs.] ``On
        this solemn day.'' --Chaucer.
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     3. Stately; ceremonious; grand. [Archaic]
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              His feast so solemn and so rich.      --Chaucer.
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              To-night we hold a splemn supper.     --Shak.
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     4. Fitted to awaken or express serious reflections; marked by
        seriousness; serious; grave; devout; as, a solemn promise;
        solemn earnestness.
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              Nor wanting power to mitigate and swage
              With solemn touches troubled thoughts. --Milton.
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              There reigned a solemn silence over all. --Spenser.
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     5. Real; earnest; downright. [Obs. & R.]
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              Frederick, the emperor, . . . has spared no expense
              in strengthening this city; since which time we find
              no solemn taking it by the Turks.     --Fuller.
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     6. Affectedly grave or serious; as, to put on a solemn face.
        ``A solemn coxcomb.'' --Swift.
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     7. (Law) Made in form; ceremonious; as, solemn war;
        conforming with all legal requirements; as, probate in
        solemn form. --Burrill. --Jarman. --Greenleaf.
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     Solemn League and Covenant. See Covenant, 2.
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     Syn: Grave; formal; ritual; ceremonial; sober; serious;
          reverential; devotional; devout. See Grave.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Solemn \Sol"emn\, a. [OE. solempne, OF. solempne, L. solemnis,
     solennis, sollemnis, sollennis; sollus all, entire + annus a
     year; properly, that takes place every year; -- used
     especially of religious solemnities. Cf. Silly, Annual.]
     1. Marked with religious rites and pomps; enjoined by, or
        connected with, religion; sacred.
  
              His holy rites and solemn feasts profaned. --Milton.
  
              The worship of this image was advanced, and a solemn
              supplication observed everry year.    --Bp.
                                                    Stillingfleet.
  
     2. Pertaining to a festival; festive; festal. [Obs.] ``On
        this solemn day.'' --Chaucer.
  
     3. Stately; ceremonious; grand. [Archaic]
  
              His feast so solemn and so rich.      --Chaucer.
  
              To-night we hold a splemn supper.     --Shak.
  
     4. Fitted to awaken or express serious reflections; marked by
        seriousness; serious; grave; devout; as, a solemn promise;
        solemn earnestness.
  
              Nor wanting power to mitigate and swage With solemn
              touches troubled thoughts.            --Milton.
  
              There reigned a solemn silence over all. --Spenser.
  
     5. Real; earnest; downright. [Obs. & R.]
  
              Frederick, the emperor, . . . has spared no expense
              in strengthening this city; since which time we find
              no solemn taking it by the Turks.     --Fuller.
  
     6. Affectedly grave or serious; as, to put on a solemn face.
        ``A solemn coxcomb.'' --Swift.
  
     7. (Law) Made in form; ceremonious; as, solemn war;
        conforming with all legal requirements; as, probate in
        solemn form. --Burrill. --Jarman. --Greenleaf.
  
     Solemn League and Covenant. See Covenant, 2.
  
     Syn: Grave; formal; ritual; ceremonial; sober; serious;
          reverential; devotional; devout. See Grave.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  solemn
       adj 1: dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to
              keeping promises; "a grave God-fearing man"; "a quiet
              sedate nature"; "as sober as a judge"; "a solemn
              promise"; "the judge was solemn as he pronounced
              sentence" [syn: grave, sedate, sober]
       2: characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity
          of your opinions; "both sides were deeply in earnest, even
          passionate"; "an entirely sincere and cruel tyrant"; "a
          film with a solemn social message" [syn: earnest, in
          earnest(p), sincere]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  solemn
     Αγγλικά a.
     σεμνός, σοβαρός και επίσημος

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  solemn
     Romanian a.
     1 (l en solemn), grave, serious
     2 impressive, exalted
     3 festive, celebratory

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  solemn
     a.
     1 (lb en religion specifically Christianity) Of or pertaining to
  religious ceremony and rites; (lb en generally) religious in nature;
  sacred.
     2 (lb en by extension)
     3 # characterize by or performed with appropriate#Adjective or
  great#Adjective ceremony or formality.
     4 # deeply serious and sombre; grave#Adjective.
     5 # inspire serious feeling#Noun or thought#Noun; sombrely
  impressive.
     6 # (lb en obsolete) cheerless, gloomy, sombre.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  solemn
     Romanian a.
     1 (l en solemn), grave, serious
     2 impressive, exalted
     3 festive, celebratory

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  solemn
     a.
     1 (lb en religion specifically Christianity) Of or pertaining to
  religious ceremony and rites; (lb en generally) religious in nature;
  sacred.
     2 (lb en by extension)
     3 # characterize by or performed with appropriate#Adjective or
  great#Adjective ceremony or formality.
     4 # deeply serious and sombre; grave#Adjective.
     5 # inspire serious feeling#Noun or thought#Noun; sombrely
  impressive.
     6 # (lb en obsolete) cheerless, gloomy, sombre.

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  solemn
     Romania a.
     juhlallinen, seremoniallinen

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  solemn
     Engelska a.
     1 dyr, högtidlig
     2 allvarlig

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Solemn /sˈɒləm/
  جدّي

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  solemn //ˈsɑləm// //ˈsɒləm// 
  1. официален, церемониален
  characterized by or performed with appropriate or great ceremony or formality
  2. сериозен, тържествен
  deeply serious and sombre
  3. впечатляващ
  inspiring serious feelings or thoughts; sombrely impressive
  4. церемониален
  of or pertaining to religious ceremonies and rites

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  solemn /sˈɒləm/
  vážný

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  solemn /sˈɒləm/
  slavnostní

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  solemn /sˈɒləm/
  feierlich, ernst 
   see: more solemn, most solemn, extremely solemn, solemn pledge, Solemn Declaration on the European Union
  

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  solemn /sˈɒləm/
  
  σεμνοπρεπής, σοβαρός

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  solemn //ˈsɑləm// //ˈsɒləm// 
  1. juhlallinen, juhlava
  characterized by or performed with appropriate or great ceremony or formality
  2. ankea, synkkä
  cheerless, gloomy, sombre
  3. vakava
  deeply serious and sombre
  4. vaikuttava
  inspiring serious feelings or thoughts; sombrely impressive
  5. pyhä
  religious in nature

From English-French FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-fra ]

  solemn /sɔləm/
  solennel

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  solemn /sˈɒləm/ 
  1. पवित्र
        "Holy places are considered to be solemn."
  2. औपचारिक
        "Soldiers performed their duties with full solemn for their mother land."
  3. गंभीर
        "He looked very solemn when he came to know about his uncle's death."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  solemn /sˈɒləm/
  dostojanstven, službeni, svečan, svečanim, uzvišen, važan, značajan

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  solemn /sˈɒləm/
  1. komoly
  2. ünnepélyes

From English-Dutch FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-nld ]

  solemn /sɔləm/
  plechtig, statig, plechtstatig

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  solemn /ˈsɒləm/ 
   1.  poważny
   2.  uroczysty

From English-Portuguese FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-por ]

  solemn /sɔləm/
  solene

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  solemn //ˈsɑləm// //ˈsɒləm// 
  högtidlig
  characterized by or performed with appropriate or great ceremony or formality

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  solemn /sˈɒləm/
  1. ağır başlı, vakur
  2. heybetli
  3. ciddi
  4. kutsal veya aziz tutulan
  5. dinsel, dini törenle yerine getirilen
  6. resmi, kanuna uygun. solemnly  ciddiyet ve vakarla.

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈsɑɫəm/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  213 Moby Thesaurus words for "solemn":
     Christian, Christianlike, Christianly, admiring, adorant, adoring,
     apotheosizing, arid, aristocratic, august, awe-inspiring, awed,
     awesome, awestricken, awestruck, barren, believing, black, blah,
     blank, bleak, bloated, bloodless, bombastic, celebrating,
     celebrative, ceremonial, ceremonious, characterless, cold,
     colorless, commemorating, commemorative, conventional, courtly,
     cultish, cultist, cultistic, dark, dead, decorous, deifying,
     demure, devoted, devotional, devout, dignified, dismal, divine,
     draggy, drear, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty,
     dutiful, earnest, ecclesiastical, effete, elephantine, elevated,
     empty, etiolated, fade, faithful, fatal, fateful, flat, flatulent,
     formal, formidable, frowning, full, funebrial, funereal, gassy,
     gloomy, glum, grand, grandiloquent, grave, gray, grim, grim-faced,
     grim-visaged, hallowed, heavy, hero-worshiping, hieratic, ho-hum,
     hollow, holy, idolatrous, idolizing, imploring, important,
     imposing, impressive, in awe, in the dust, inane, inexcitable,
     inflated, insipid, inspiring, jejune, kingly, leaden, lifeless,
     liturgic, liturgical, lofty, long-faced, lordly, low-spirited,
     magisterial, magnificent, majestic, memorial, mirthless, moderate,
     momentous, morbid, morose, moving, no-nonsense, noble,
     on bended knee, ostentatious, overwhelming, pale, pallid,
     pedestrian, pietistic, pious, plenary, plodding, pointless, poky,
     pompous, ponderous, pontifical, portentous, prayerful, precative,
     precatory, princely, prostrate before, queenly, regal, religious,
     reserved, reverent, reverential, ritual, ritualistic, royal,
     sacerdotal, sacramental, sacred, saturnine, sedate, self-important,
     serious, slow, sober, sober-minded, sobersided, somber, sombrous,
     spiritless, staid, stately, statuesque, sterile, stiff, stilted,
     stodgy, stone-faced, straight-faced, stuffy, sublime, superficial,
     suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory, swollen, taciturn, tasteless,
     tedious, temperate, theistic, thoughtful, triste, tumid, turgid,
     unlively, unsmiling, vapid, venerable, venerational, venerative,
     weariful, wearisome, weary, weighty, well-mannered, wooden,
     worshipful, worshiping, worthy
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  a. 严肃的,郑重的,庄严的;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 严肃的,郑重的,庄严的

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