Dictionary

seclude en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /səˈkluːd/

Etymology

From Latin secludo.

Meanings

1. (reflexive, transitive) To shut off or keep apart, as from company, society, etc.; withdraw (oneself) from society or into solitude.
   • If he wishes to enjoy an hour in his private study, it is not pleasant to be obliged all the time to listen to noises in the next room, even if made by his own servants or his own children. For members of a family themselves require at times to seclude themselves from other members of the family; — there are business matters to be talked of; there are projects which children or servants should not hear; there are numberless things which the heads of a household wish to discuss by themselves. 1922, Lafcadio Hearn, Creole Sketches/Old-Fashioned Houses:
   • At one moment she was absolutely indifferent to the observation of all the world, at another she would seclude herself from it for ever, and at a third could resist it with energy. 1811, Jane Austen, chapter 31, in Sense and Sensibility:
2. (transitive) To shut or keep out; exclude; preclude.

Forms

Deriveds

secluded · secludedly

Relateds

seclusive · seclusion

Translations (3)

es secluir ((''transitive'')) · ca recloure ((''transitive'')) · es secludir ((''transitive''))