adjective
- sheltered or screened from general activity, view, etc.: a secluded cottage.
- withdrawn from or involving little human or social activity: a secluded life.
verb (used with object), se·clud·ed, se·clud·ing.
- to place in or withdraw into solitude; remove from social contact and activity, etc.
- to isolate; shut off; keep apart: They secluded the garden from the rest of the property.
adjective
- kept apart from the company of othersa secluded life
- sheltered; private
verb (tr)
- to remove from contact with others
- to shut off or screen from view
adj.c.1600, of persons; in reference to places, 1798, past participle adjective from seclude (v.). Earlier secluse (1590s). v.mid-15c., “to shut up, enclose, confine,” from Latin secludere “shut off, confine,” from se- “apart” (see secret) + -cludere, variant of claudere “to shut” (see close (v.)). Meaning “to remove or guard from public view” is recorded from 1620s. Related: Secluded; secluding.