Isolated: adj. and name (from the Italian isolato “separate like an island (isola)”).
The word “isolated” has several meanings:
1. Separated from things of the same kind.
An isolated building.
Some isolated applause (rare).
Who is far from any habitation (dismissed, lost, moved back, withdrawn).
Secluded place.
Quotation from the French writer Théophile Gautier (1811-1872): “A poor isolated house, the only one to come across in a space of eight leagues”.
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