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.

Synonyms

• off the grid
• isolated

Translations

in seclusion, isolated, remote

• Catalan: retirat (ca)
• Czech: odloučený
• Dutch: afgezonderd (nl)
• Esperanto: izola
• Finnish: syrjäinen (fi)
• French: isolé (fr), retiré (fr)
• Galician: aillado m
• German: abgeschieden (de), abgesondert (de), abgelegen (de) (location), einsam (de) (e.g. house)
• Greek: απομονωμένος (el) m (apomonoménos), απόμερος (el) m (apómeros)
• Latin: reductus, summōtus
• Macedonian: за́тскриен (zátskrien)
• Maori: punanga
• Polish: ustronny (pl), odosobniony (pl), izolowany (pl), oddzielony
• Portuguese: recluso (pt)
• Romanian: retras (ro), izolat (ro)
• Russian: уединённый (ru) (ujedinjónnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: aonaranach, uaigneach
• Slovak: odlúčený
• Swedish: avskild (sv)
• Turkish: ayrılmış (tr), gözden uzak, gözlerden uzak, ıssız (tr), tecrit edilmiş, inzivaya çekilmek (tr)

Verb

secluded

1. simple past and past participle of seclude

Anagrams

• cuddlees