sole - Dictionary Definition : Vocabulary.com

Sole means not shared with others. If it's your sole responsibility to make the chocolate cake for a party, it's all on you.

Sole comes from the Latin solus, meaning "alone," and it can describe being the only person involved in something, like being the sole member of the Special People Club. As a noun, your sole is the bottom of your foot. If you order sole in a restaurant, you'll get a flat fish that looks like the bottom of your shoe. Although they sound alike, if you order the soul, the waitperson might send you to a church down the street.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: sole

1	n v	the underside of the foot put a new sole on
2	adj	not divided or shared with others
3	n	lean flesh of any of several flatfish

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: sole

1

n the underside of the foot

Type of:: area, region
a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve

n the underside of footwear or a golf club

Types:: half sole
shoe sole extending from the shank to the toe; innersole, insole
the inner sole of a shoe or boot where the foot rests; outsole
the outer sole of a shoe or boot that is the bottom of the shoe and makes contact with the ground

Type of:: bottom, underside, undersurface
the lower side of anything

v put a new sole on

“sole the shoes”

Synonyms:: resole

Type of:: bushel, doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on
restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken

2

adj not divided or shared with others

“sole rights of publication”

Synonyms:: exclusive

: unshared
not shared

adj being the only one; single and isolated from others

“the sole heir”

“the sole example”

Synonyms:: lone, lonesome, only, solitary

: single
existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual

3

n lean flesh of any of several flatfish

Synonyms:: fillet of sole

Types:: gray sole, grey sole
greyish-white flesh of a flatfish; English sole, lemon sole
highly valued almost pure white flesh

Type of:: flatfish
sweet lean whitish flesh of any of numerous thin-bodied fish; usually served as thin fillets

n right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European

Types:: show 5 types...; hide 5 types...; European sole, Solea solea
highly valued as food; Solea lascaris, lemon sole
small European sole; English sole, Parophrys vitulus, lemon sole
popular pale brown food flatfish of the Pacific coast of North America; Psettichthys melanostichus, sand sole
a common flatfish of the Pacific coast of North America; Trinectes maculatus, hogchoker
useless as food; in coastal streams from Maine to Texas and Panama

Type of:: food fish
any fish used for food by human beings; flatfish
any of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor on one side of the body with both eyes on the upper side