\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.