secluded
adj[səˈkʰɫʏu̯.ɾɪd̚]
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Hidden, isolated, remote.
- Hidden in the mountains is a small secluded village that not many people know of.
- No one, however, thought of the haughty and secluded young gentleman who […] when he rode on his black hunter into Dublin, avoided the village, and took the high-road by Inchicore.1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
1 more example
- In the swamp in secluded recesses, / A shy and hidden bird is warbling a song.1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
- Synonyms
- off the grid, isolated
- Derived terms
- secludedly, secludedness, unsecluded