secluded

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /səˈkluːdɪd/
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Adjective

secluded (comparative more secluded, superlative most secluded)

  1. Hidden, isolated, remote.
    Hidden in the mountains is a small secluded village that not many people know of.
    • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
      No one, however, thought of the haughty and secluded young gentleman who [] when he rode on his black hunter into Dublin, avoided the village, and took the high-road by Inchicore.
    • 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
      In the swamp in secluded recesses, / A shy and hidden bird is warbling a song.

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Verb

secluded

  1. simple past and past participle of seclude

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