\Sol`i*dar"i*ty\, n. [F. solidarit['e], fr. solide.
See {Solid}.]
An entire union or consolidation of interests and
responsibilities; fellowship; community.

      Solidarity [a word which we owe to the French
      Communists], 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.