Recluse Definition

rĕklo͝os, rĭ-klo͝os
noun
A person who lives a secluded, solitary life.
Webster's New World
(US) A brown recluse spider.
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adjective
Withdrawn from the world; reclusive.
American Heritage Medicine

Reclusive.

Webster's New World

(now rare) Sequestered; secluded, isolated.

A recluse monk or hermit.
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(now rare) Hidden, secret.

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verb

(obsolete) To shut; to seclude.

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Other Word Forms of Recluse

Noun

Singular:
recluse
Plural:
recluses

Origin of Recluse

  • From Old French reclus, past participle of reclure, from Latin reclÅ«dere, present active infinitive of reclÅ«dō (“enclose"), from re- + claudō (“close").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old French reclus from Latin reclūsus past participle of reclūdere to shut up re- re- claudere to close

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Recluse Sentence Examples

  • In many ways he was still a recluse, but he wasn't wrapped up in himself.

  • Which came first, the recluse or the loneliness?

  • For a while she led at home the life of a recluse, speaking only to her confessor, and spending all her time in devotion and spiritual ecstasy.

  • He was sent as a child to be educated at Port Royal, and there he received his final bent towards the life of a recluse, and even of a hermit, which drew him to establish himself in the neighbourhood of Port Royal des Champs.

  • The second son, Charles Robert, a man of ability but of impracticable temper, a professed atheist and a recluse, died in 1884.

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Words Starting With

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