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secluded

[si-kloo-did]

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adjective

sheltered or screened from general activity, view, etc.: a secluded cottage.

withdrawn from or involving little human or social activity: a secluded life.

Origin:
1595–1605; seclude + -ed²

Related forms

se·clud·ed·ly, adverb

se·clud·ed·ness, noun

non·se·clud·ed, adjective

non·se·clud·ed·ly, adverb

non·se·clud·ed·ness, noun

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un·se·clud·ed, adjective

un·se·clud·ed·ly, adverb

well-se·clud·ed, adjective

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Synonyms
isolated, retired, sequestered, cloistered, private, secret.

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The more secluded the location, the more appealing it seems.

Many look longingly at the more secluded world of private equity.

For an even more remote experience, opt for one of the eight secluded cottages that dot the property.

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The more secluded the location, the more appealing it seems.

Many look longingly at the more secluded world of private equity.

For an even more remote experience, opt for one of the eight secluded cottages that dot the property.

Every garden should offer a secluded place to relax.

After chocolate-covered strawberries, it's time to watch the sun setting on a secluded stretch of sand and water.

Tibet may have remained secluded for many more years.

We traveled to the west side of kauai to a secluded beach named poli hale a couple of hours before sunset.

Pick a secluded corner of your home and create a backdrop using a curtain over the door or a set of dowel rods.

Wood-beam ceilings, traditional furnishings, and secluded garden.

Five men climbed out, ran into the house, and returned to move the truck to a secluded alley.

Your best bet is to find a secluded one since you'll be using it for awhile.

Some day it will probably add a stop for the secluded farm the first black president rented.

Think secluded beaches speckled with tiny blue penguins and rocky waterfalls hidden behind thick rain forest canopies.

Hess kept himself secluded from public view after the announcement of his failure.

One woman even showed up at his secluded home on an island.

And placing the pills only in pharmacies and clinics may put them out of reach for women who live in rural or secluded areas.

Sometimes he has a few free hours, and he takes his women to a secluded spot.

But for secluded locations you might actually want to live in.

In a secluded pool hemmed by mangroves, baby lemon sharks roll in the shallows and nip at the surface of the windowpane water.

The home, on a secluded wooded slope, will be a dazzler.

The grounds boasted a secluded lodge and a forest reserved for hunting deer and other game.

The family packed up and drove west, where a real estate agent helped them find a rental house in a secluded area near a lake.

Punishment will only teach your puppy to find a more secluded area in your house to go in.

Located down a gated and private driveway you will find a secluded garden paradise.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used with object), -clud·ed, -clud·ing.

to place in or withdraw into solitude; remove from social contact and activity, etc.

to isolate; shut off; keep apart: They secluded the garden from the rest of the property.

Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English < Latin sēclūdere, equivalent to sē- se- + -clūdere, combining form of claudere to close

Related forms

un·se·clud·ing, adjective

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World English Dictionary

secluded (sɪˈkluːdɪd)

—*adj*
1.	kept apart from the company of others: a secluded life
2.	sheltered; private

se'cludedly

—*adv*

se'cludedness

—n

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Word Origin & History

seclude

1451, "to shut up, enclose, confine," from L. secludere "shut off, confine," from se- "apart" (see secret) + -cludere, variant of claudere "to shut" (see close (v.)). Meaning "to remove or guard from public view" is recorded from 1628. Secluded, in ref. to places, is from 1798.

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"As I went forth early on a still and frosty morning, the trees looked like airy creatures of darkness caught napping; on this side huddled together, with their gray hairs streaming, in a secluded valley which the sun had not penetrated; on that, hurrying off in Indian file along some watercourse, while the shrubs and grasses, like elves and fairies of the night, sought to hide their diminished heads in the snow."

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