Meaning of Recluse | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person who lives in self-imposed isolation or seclusion from the world, especially for religious purposes; a hermit.
   archaic
2. The place where a recluse dwells; a place of isolation or seclusion.
   archaic, obsolete
3. Ellipsis of recluse spider.
   US, abbreviation, alt-of, archaic, ellipsis
4. See also Thesaurus:recluse
   archaic

Equivalents

Examples

“The recluse in the fable kept a cat to keep off the rats, and then a cow to feed the cat with milk, and a man to keep the cow and so on. My ambitions also grew like the family of the recluse.”

“First, the president’s uncle died in 1985. Kaczynski was publicly revealed as the Unabomber more than a decade later, in 1996, when he was captured; before that, he had lived as a recluse in the Montana wilderness.”

“that day of appearance taken out of the recluse and committed to safe custody”

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