Meaning of retreat | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant.
2. A locality in George Town council area and the City of Launceston, northern Tasmania, Australia.
3. The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant. The act of reversing direction and receding from a forward position. Withdrawal by a military force from a dangerous position or from enemy attack
4. The act of reversing direction and receding from a forward position.
5. The act of reversing direction and receding from a forward position
6. Withdrawal by a military force from a dangerous position or from enemy attack.
7. Withdrawal by a military force from a dangerous position or from enemy attack
8. A peaceful, quiet place affording privacy or security.
9. A peaceful, quiet place affording privacy or security
10. A peaceful, quiet place in which to urinate and defecate: an outhouse; a lavatory.
    euphemistic, obsolete, rare
11. A peaceful, quiet place in which to urinate and defecate: an outhouse; a lavatory
12. A period of retirement, seclusion, or solitude, especially for meditation, prayer, or study.
13. A signal for a military withdrawal.
14. A bugle call or drumbeat signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset, as on a military base.
15. A military ceremony to lower the flag.
16. The move of a piece from a threatened position.

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Examples

“In a retreat he outruns any lackey.”

“The general opted for a swift retreat because he saw his troops were vastly outnumbered.”

“a mountain retreat”

“"[…] But come, Lady, we are too near the mouth of the cavern; let us seek its inmost recesses. […]" "Though all your actions are noble, […] is it fitting that I should accompany you alone into these perplexed retreats? Should we be found together, what would a censorious world think of my conduct?"”

“[…] he built his son a house of pleasure, on purpose to keep him out of harm's way; and spared neither art nor cost to make it a delicious retreat.”

“That pleasing shade they sought, a soft retreat / From sudden April showers, a shelter from the heat.”

“In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat.”

“When Herbert Kochta first thought about designing a five-star alpine hotel just outside the Bavarian town of Berchtesgaden, a mere 300 yards from the ruins of the Berghof, Adolf Hitler's mountain retreat, the veteran Munich architect knew he could conceptualize a hotel on a hill in either of two ways.”

“We both need a week retreat after those two stressful years working in the city.”

“a Buddhist retreat”

“a company retreat”

“Obviously she is trying to blend in at the über–bachelor party that is the GoJo corporate retreat in Norway.”

“For example, Steve Jobs used to run an annual retreat for what he considered the 100 most important people at Apple, and these were not the 100 people highest on the org chart.”

“to-morrow the Royal Standard will be hoisted at Edinburgh Castle from reveille to retreat.”

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