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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SECLU'DED, pp. Separated from others; living in retirement; shut out.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: hidden from general view or use; "a privy place to rest and think"; "a secluded romantic spot"; "a secret garden" [syn: privy, secluded, secret]
2: providing privacy or seclusion; "the cloistered academic world of books"; "sat close together in the sequestered pergola"; "sitting under the reclusive calm of a shade tree"; "a secluded romantic spot" [syn: cloistered, reclusive, secluded, sequestered]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1604 1. screened or hidden from view ; sequestered <a secluded valley> 2. living in seclusion ; solitary <secluded monks> • secludedly adverb • secludedness noun

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Seclude Se*clude, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Secluded; p. pr. & vb. n. Secluding.] [L. secludere, seclusum pref. se- aside + claudere to shut. See Close, v. t.] 1. To shut up apart from others; to withdraw into, or place in, solitude; to separate from society or intercourse with others. Let Eastern tyrants from the light of heaven Seclude their bosom slaves. --Thomson. 2. To shut or keep out; to exclude. [Obs.] --Evelyn. -- Se*clud"ed*ly, adv. -- Se*clud"ed*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

A secluded place is quiet and private. We were tucked away in a secluded corner of the room... We found a secluded beach a few miles further on. ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Retired, withdrawn, close, sequestered, isolated, private.

Moby Thesaurus

abstruse, alone, anonymous, apart, at rest, beclouded, blind, buried, calm, cloistered, close, closet, clouded, concealed, cool, covered, covert, detached, dwindling, ebbing, eclipsed, eremitic, even-tenored, far-off, halcyon, hermetic, hid, hidden, hushed, impassive, in a backwater, in a cloud, in a fog, in eclipse, in purdah, in the wings, incognito, incommunicado, inmost, innermost, insular, interior, intimate, inward, isolated, latent, lonely, moldering, monastic, mysterious, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, occult, out-of-the-way, out-of-the-world, pacific, peaceable, peaceful, personal, placid, private, privy, quarantined, quiescent, quiet, recluse, recondite, remote, removed, reposeful, reposing, restful, resting, retired, screened, secluse, seclusive, secret, segregated, separate, separated, sequestered, sequestrated, sheltered, shut off, shy, smooth, solitary, still, still as death, stillish, stilly, stoic, stolid, subsiding, tranquil, unagitated, under an eclipse, under cover, under house arrest, under wraps, underground, undisturbed, unfrequented, unknown, unmoved, unperturbed, unruffled, unstirring, untroubled, unvisited, waning, withdrawn, wrapped in clouds