English-Thai Dictionary

recluse

N ผู้ สันโดษ  ผู้ ปลีกตัว จาก สังคม  anchorite hermit phu-san-dod

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RECLUSE

a. Shut up; sequestered; retired from the world or from public notice; solitary; as a recluse monk or hermit; a recluse life.
I all the live-long day consume in meditation deep, recluse from human converse.

 

RECLUSE

n. 1. A person who live in retirement or seclusion from intercourse with the world; as a hermit or monk.
2. A person who confines himself to a cell in a monastery.

 

RECLUSELY

adv. In retirement or seclusion from society.

 

RECLUSENESS

n.Retirement; seclusion from society.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

RECLUSE

Re *cluse ", a. Etym: [L. reclus, L. reclusus, from recludere,reclusum, to unclose, open, in LL. , to shut up. See Close. ]

 

Defn: Shut up, sequestered; retired from the world or from public notice; solitary; living apart; as, a recluse monk or hermit; a recluse life In meditation deep, recluse From human converse. J. Philips.

 

RECLUSE

Re *cluse ", n. Etym: [F. reclus, LL. reclusus. See Recluse, a.]

 

1. A person who lives in seclusion from intercourse with the world, as a hermit or monk; specifically, one of a class of secluded devotees who live in single cells; usually attached to monasteries.

 

2. The place where a recluse dwells. [Obs. ] Foxe.

 

RECLUSE

RECLUSE Re *cluse ", v. t.

 

Defn: To shut; to seclude. [Obs. ]

 

RECLUSELY

RECLUSELY Re *cluse "ly, adv.

 

Defn: In a recluse or solitary manner.

 

RECLUSENESS

RECLUSENESS Re *cluse "ness, n.

 

Defn: Quality or state of being recluse.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

recluse

rec luse |ˈrekˌlo͞os, riˈklo͞os, ˈrekˌlo͞oz ˈrəˌklus | ▶noun a person who lives a solitary life and tends to avoid other people. ▶adjective archaic favoring a solitary life. DERIVATIVES re clu sion |riˈklo͞oZHən |noun ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French reclus, past participle of reclure, from Latin recludere ‘enclose, ’ from re- ‘again ’ + claudere ‘to shut. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

recluse

recluse |rɪˈkluːs | ▶noun a person who lives a solitary life and tends to avoid other people. ▶adjective archaic favouring a solitary life. DERIVATIVES reclusion |rɪˈkluːʒ (ə )n |noun ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French reclus, past participle of reclure, from Latin recludere ‘enclose ’, from re- ‘again ’ + claudere ‘to shut ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

recluse

recluse noun 1 a religious recluse: hermit, ascetic, eremite, marabout; historical anchorite, anchoress. 2 a natural recluse: loner, solitary, lone wolf, troglodyte; misanthrope; rare solitudinarian, solitarian.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

recluse

recluse noun 1 a religious recluse: hermit, ascetic; monk, nun; Islam marabout, santon; rare eremite, anchorite, anchoress, stylite, cenobite. 2 a natural recluse who found all human relationships difficult: loner, solitary, lone wolf; introvert, misanthrope; rare solitudinarian, solitaire, solitarian, isolate.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

recluse

rec luse /rékluːs |rɪklúːs /名詞 C 〖通例単数形で 〗隠者, 隠遁 （いんとん ）者 .形容詞 世を捨てた .rec lus ive /rɪklúːsɪv /形容詞