'Recluse' definitions:
Definition of 'recluse'
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Definition of 'Recluse'
From: GCIDE
- Recluse \Re*cluse"\, v. t. To shut up; to seclude. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Recluse'
From: GCIDE
- Recluse \Re*cluse"\ (r[-e]*kl[=u]s"), a. [F. reclus, L. reclusus, from recludere, reclusum, to unclose, open, in LL., to shut up. See Close.] Shut up, sequestered; retired from the world or from public notice; solitary; living apart; as, a recluse monk or hermit; a recluse life [1913 Webster]
- In meditation deep, recluse From human converse. --J. Philips. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Recluse'
From: GCIDE
- Recluse \Re*cluse"\, n. [F. reclus, LL. reclusus. See Recluse, a.]
- 1. A person who lives in seclusion from intercourse with the world, as a hermit or monk; specifically, one of a class of secluded devotees who live in single cells, usually attached to monasteries. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The place where a recluse dwells. [Obs.] --Foxe. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'recluse'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- anchoress,
- anchorite,
- anchoritic,
- ascetic,
- bedridden invalid,
- cenobite,
- character,
- cloistered,
- cloistered monk,
- closet cynic,
- crackpot,
- crank,
- desert fathers,
- desert saints,
- Diogenes,
- domestic,
- eccentric,
- eremite,
- eremitic,
- erratic,
- flake,
- freak,
- hermetic,
- hermit,
- hermitess,
- hermitic,
- hermitish,
- Hieronymian,
- Hieronymite,
- homebody,
- invalid,
- isolationist,
- kook,
- loner,
- marabout,
- monk,
- nonconformist,
- nun,
- nut,
- oddball,
- outcast,
- pariah,
- pillar saint,
- pillarist,
- screwball,
- secluse,
- seclusionist,
- seclusive,
- sequestered,
- shut in,
- shut up,
- shut-in,
- solitaire,
- solitary,
- solitudinarian,
- stay-at-home,
- strange duck,
- stylite,
- Timon of Athens,
- weirdo