Entry Word: sole

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 belonging only to the one person, unit, or group named <the landowner has sole rights to the property, so he can do whatever he wants to with it>

Synonyms exclusive, single, unshared

Related Words proprietary

Near Antonyms joint, mutual, shared

Antonyms nonexclusive

2 being the one or ones of a class with no other members <the eldest son became the family's sole support> — see only 2