Secluded

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Seclude \Se*clude\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Secluded}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Secluding}.] [L. secludere, seclusum; pref. se- aside +
     claudere to shut. See {Close}, v. t.]
     1. To shut up apart from others; to withdraw into, or place
        in, solitude; to separate from society or intercourse with
        others.


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              Let Eastern tyrants from the light of heaven
              Seclude their bosom slaves.           --Thomson.
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     2. To shut or keep out; to exclude. [Obs.] --Evelyn.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Se*clud"ed*ly}, adv. --
        {Se*clud"ed*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  secluded
       adj 1: hidden from general view or use; "a privy place to rest and
              think"; "a secluded romantic spot"; "a secret garden"
              [syn: {privy}, {secret}]
       2: providing privacy or seclusion; "the cloistered academic
          world of books"; "sat close together in the sequestered
          pergola"; "sitting under the reclusive calm of a shade
          tree"; "a secluded romantic spot" [syn: {cloistered}, {reclusive},
           {sequestered}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  115 Moby Thesaurus words for "secluded":
     abstruse, alone, anonymous, apart, at rest, beclouded, blind,
     buried, calm, cloistered, close, closet, clouded, concealed, cool,
     covered, covert, detached, dwindling, ebbing, eclipsed, eremitic,
     even-tenored, far-off, halcyon, hermetic, hid, hidden, hushed,
     impassive, in a backwater, in a cloud, in a fog, in eclipse,
     in purdah, in the wings, incognito, incommunicado, inmost,
     innermost, insular, interior, intimate, inward, isolated, latent,
     lonely, moldering, monastic, mysterious, obfuscated, obscure,
     obscured, occult, out-of-the-way, out-of-the-world, pacific,
     peaceable, peaceful, personal, placid, private, privy, quarantined,
     quiescent, quiet, recluse, recondite, remote, removed, reposeful,
     reposing, restful, resting, retired, screened, secluse, seclusive,
     secret, segregated, separate, separated, sequestered, sequestrated,
     sheltered, shut off, shy, smooth, solitary, still, still as death,
     stillish, stilly, stoic, stolid, subsiding, tranquil, unagitated,
     under an eclipse, under cover, under house arrest, under wraps,
     underground, undisturbed, unfrequented, unknown, unmoved,
     unperturbed, unruffled, unstirring, untroubled, unvisited, waning,
     withdrawn, wrapped in clouds