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SECLUDED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Providing privacy or seclusion
Example:
a secluded romantic spot
Synonyms:
cloistered; reclusive; secluded; sequestered
Classified under:
Similar:
private (confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Hidden from general view or use
Example:
a secret garden
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
private (confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb seclude
Context examples:
Study had before secluded me from the intercourse of my fellow-creatures, and rendered me unsocial; but Clerval called forth the better feelings of my heart; he again taught me to love the aspect of nature, and the cheerful faces of children.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
A crime of mysterious character was committed last night at 16, Godolphin Street, one of the old-fashioned and secluded rows of eighteenth century houses which lie between the river and the Abbey, almost in the shadow of the great Tower of the Houses of Parliament.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
How they affected my aunt, nobody knew; for immediately upon the separation, she took her maiden name again, bought a cottage in a hamlet on the sea-coast a long way off, established herself there as a single woman with one servant, and was understood to live secluded, ever afterwards, in an inflexible retirement.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
While I was overcome by these feelings, I left the spot where I had committed the murder, and seeking a more secluded hiding-place, I entered a barn which had appeared to me to be empty.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
