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Definition: Secluded |
SecludedAdjective1. Hidden from general view or use; "a privy place to rest and think"; "a secluded romantic spot"; "a secret garden". 2. Providing privacy or seclusion; "the cloistered academic world of books"; "sat close together in the sequestered pergola"; "sitting under the reclusive calm of a shade tree"; 'a secluded romantic spot". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "secluded" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
Synonyms: SecludedSynonyms: cloistered (adj), privy (adj), reclusive (adj), secret (adj), sequestered (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Concealment | Behind a screen; undercover, under an eclipse; in ambush, in hiding, in disguise; in a cloud, in a fog, in a mist, in a haze, in a dark corner; in the shade, in the dark; clouded, wrapped in clouds, wrapt in clouds; invisible; buried, underground, perdu; secluded. |
Seclusion Exclusion | Verb: be secluded, live secluded; Adjective: keep aloof, stand, hold oneself aloof, keep in the background, stand in the background; keep snug; shut oneself up; deny oneself, seclude oneself creep into a corner, rusticate, aller planter ses choux; retire, retire from the world; take the veil; abandon; sport one's oak. |
Adjective: secluded, sequestered, retired, delitescent, private, bye; out of the world, out of the way; " the world forgetting by the world forgot ". | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Secluded |
| English words defined with "secluded": By-walk ♦ cloistered, cubby, cubbyhole ♦ den ♦ glen ♦ Heremitical, hole up ♦ Intraparietal ♦ lonely ♦ nest, nook ♦ pleasance, privacy, privateness, privy, purdah ♦ reclusive ♦ seclusion, secret, sequestered, sex segregation, snug, snuggery, solitary ♦ Umbratical, unfrequented. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "secluded": CORELLI ♦ Oldest Nation ♦ rincon ♦ Shalott, small valley. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "secluded": seclude. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | And then at night, we'd take in an opera, probably Die Fledermaus, and then I'd follow it up with a drive to a secluded beach where I'd pop on the radio and we could slow-dance till the sun came up. (Mallrats; writing credit: Kevin Smith) | |
Lyrics | Your secluded nights ("Stop in the Name of Love"; performing artist: The Supremes) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Secluded Roadhouse (1926) | |
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 | Production. Airplane engines. An airplane engine under special test in a secluded and carefully guarded woodland area near a Midwest engine plant. If the engine meets the exacting requirement imposed by the test engineers, it will yield valuable technical. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A rustic bridge and picnic table in a secluded clearing. A part of the Resettlement Administration's recreational area. Oregon. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "_DOCKBAY:37" by Janus R. Sørensen Commentary: "The beauty of underground locations have always been a prime target of facination for me. I constantly find my self drawn to secluded and isolated urban areas. The stable and hypnotic pulse of electrical generators. The subtle and distant sounds of p" |
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | There, in a very secluded and shaded spot, under a spreading white pine, there was yet a clean, firm sward to sit on. |
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| "Secluded" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 82.69% of the time. "Secluded" is used about 208 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 82.69% | 172 | 23,722 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 11.06% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 5.29% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.96% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 208 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "secluded": be secluded ♦ live in secluded spot ♦ secluded life ♦ secluded spot. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "secluded"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | afsonderlik (apart, isolated, particular, separate, special). (various references) | |
Albanian | izoluar (isolated), i vetmuar (bleak, cloistered, desolate, eremitic, lone, lonely, lonesome, out of the way, private, privy, recluse, remote, retired, solitary), i veçuar (dangling, detached, individual, isolated, lonely, out of the way, retired, segregate, separate, several, single), i izoluar (closed, confined, isolated, sequestered). (various references) | |
Arabic | منعزل (bleak, downcast, hideaway, insulate, isolated, lone, lonely, lonesome, private, quiet, recluse, retired, separate, separated, shy, solitary, withdrawn), متوحد (alone, isolated, lone, lonely, recluse, reclusive, solitary), معزول (isolated, outlying, removed, segregate, separated, set apart, set aside, shut off, straggler). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | усамотен (isolated, lonely, private, remote, retired, solitary, unfrequented), уединен (lone, lonely, obscure, private, recluse, retired, secret, solitary, withdrawn), самотен (desolate, friendless, lone, lonely, lonesome, lorn, single, solitary, unfriended), изолиран (incommunicado, insular, isolated, private, separate, shut in). (various references) | |
Chinese | 僻 (low, rustic), 偏僻 (Out-of-the-way, Secludedly), 幽 (quiet). (various references) | |
Czech | odlouèený, izolovaný (incommunicado, isolated, solitary). (various references) | |
Dutch | geïsoleerd (isolated, remote), alleenstaand (isolated, living alone, single). (various references) | |
Esperanto | izola (isolated). (various references) | |
Farsi | منزوی (Hermit, Insular, Recluse, Solitary, Solitudinarian). (various references) | |
Finnish | yksinäinen (lonely, single, solitary). (various references) | |
French | solitaire, retiré, isolé (segregated). (various references) | |
Frisian | frijesteand (isolated), allinnesteand (isolated). (various references) | |
German | Schloß ab, zurückgezogen (isolated, retiring, retreated, secludedly, seclusive, withdrawn), verschwiegen (closed-mouthed, discreet, discrete, reticent, reticently, secretive, silent), lauschig (cozy, snug), einsam (alone, desert, empty, fantastic, forlorn, isolated, lone, lonely, lonesom, lonesome, lonesomely, private, single handed, solitarily, solitary, unfrequented), abgesondert (apart, apart (from), incommunicado, isolated, particular, secreted, separate, separated, special), abgeschieden (cloistered, departed, isolated, solitary), abgelegen (faraway, isolated, outlying, remote, solitary). (various references) | |
Greek | ερημικός, απόμεροσ (remote, retired), απομεμονωμένοσ (stranded), απομονωμένοσ (detached, incommunicado, isolated, sequestered), απομονωμένος (isolated). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | izoluar (isolated). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מתבודד (hermit, recluse, retiring, seclusive, solitary), מבודד (insulated, isolated, lone), מנוזר (retired, segregated, separated), שקט (calmness, dummy, hush, peaceful, quiescent, quiet, quietude, silence, silent, still, stillness, tranquil), בודד (lone, lonely, single, solitary). (various references) | |
Hungarian | elvonult (solitary), félreeső (devious, outlying, sequestered, solitary). (various references) | |
Indonesian | terasing (alienated, exotic). (various references) | |
Italian | ritirato (ebbed, retired, withdrawn), isolato (block, detached, insulated, isolated, lone, lonely, private, remote, solitary), appartato (withdrawn). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 奥まって (innermost). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おくまって (innermost). (various references) | |
Korean | 궁벽한. (various references) | |
Manx | cooyl-raadagh (out of the way, retired). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ecludedsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | isolado (alone, cloistered, cloistral, insulator, isolated, lone, lonesome, particular, recluse, separate, sequestered, sole, solitary, special, sporadic, straggling, strayed). (various references) | |
Romanian | retras (covert, drawn, lone, lonely, private, quiet, recluse, remote, reserved, retired, retiring, seclusive, secret, separate, sequestered, solitary, unfrequented), izolat (apart, detached, isolated, lonely, lonesome, out of the way, private, remote, removed, retired, scattered, seclusive, segregate, separate, sequestered, solitary, unfrequented), dosnic (hidden), depãrtat (distant, far away, off, out, out of the way, outlying, remote, solitary), ascuns (abstruse, backstairs, blind, cagey, close, concealed, covert, cryptic, dark, furtive, hidden, masked, mystic, occult, postern, privy, q.t., quiet, recondite, secret, secretive, self contained, sneaking, stealthy, sunken, ulterior, uncommunicative, underground, underhand, undiscovered). (various references) | |
Russian | уединенный (cloistral, coy, lone, lonely, private, privy, recluse, retired, seclusive, solitary). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | osamljen (alone, recluse), izdvojen (segregate, separate, separated). (various references) | |
Spanish | retirado (disengaged, Pensionary, ret., retired, retreat, sequestered, withdrawn), aislado (abandonee, cut off, detached, insulated, isolated, lonely, off the beaten track, one off, outlying, private, remote, segregated, separate). (various references) | |
Swedish | undangömd (concealed, hidden away, out of the way). (various references) | |
Thai | เป็นส่วนตัว. (various references) | |
Turkish | mahrem (camera, close, closet, confidental, hush hush, private, privy, secret), münzevi (sequestered, solitary), kimseyle görüşmeyen, kapalı (backhanded, cloistered, close, closed, cloudy, cloudyly, covered, enclosed, Gray, grey, impenetrable, indoor, muggy, murky, off, overcast, privy, sable, sealed, shut, skyless, sullen, unopened), inzivaya çekilmiş (retired), gizli (arcane, back door, blind, camera, clandestine, classified, closet, concealed, confidential, covert, cryptic, cryptical, crypto-, disguised, esoteric, furtive, hidden, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hush hush, inner, intimate, latent, masked, occult, perdu, Perdue, private, privy, quiet, restricted, sealed, secret, secretly, slinky, sneaking, sneakingly, sneaky, snug, stealthy, sub rosa, submerged, submersed, subterranean, subterraneous, surreptitious, ulterior, under cover, underarm, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, undisclosed, unsearchable, unseen), gözlerden uzak (obscure). (various references) | |
Turkmen | зola (unpopulated). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | усамітнений (cloistered, lonesome, sequestered, withdrawn), віддалений (abstracted, away, back, distant, far, far off, in the distance, off, out, out of the way, outlying, remote, wide). (various references) | |
Welsh | neilltuedig (separated). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | abditis, abdito, seducta, seducti, seductus. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 1, Verse 24 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Meta de tautaV taV hmeraV sunelaben elisabet h gunh autou kai periekruben eauthn mhnaV pente legousa |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Post hos autem dies concepit Elisabeth uxor eius et occultabat se mensibus quinque dicens |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Soðlice æfter dagum elizabeþ his wif geeacnode and heo bediglude hig fif monþas and cwæð; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And aftir these daies Elizabeth, his wijf, conseyuede, and hidde hir fyue monethis, and seide, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And after thoose dayes his wyfe Elizabeth coceaved and hyd her sylfe .v. monethes sayinge: |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying, |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and secluded herself five months, saying, |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | After that time, Elisabeth, being certain that she was to become a mother, kept herself from men's eyes for five months, saying, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 1, Verse 24 |
| Cebuano | Tapus niadtong mga adlawa, si Elisabet nga iyang asawa nanamkon, ug sulod sa lima ka bulan siya nagtago nga nag-ingon, |
| Croatian | Nakon tih dana zatrudnje Elizabeta, njegova žena. Krila se pet mjeseci govoreæi: |
| Danish | Men efter disse Dage blev hans Hustru Elisabeth frugtsommelig, og hun skjulte sig fem Måneder og sagde: |
| Dutch | En na die dagen werd Elizabet, zijn vrouw, bevrucht; en zij verborg zich vijf maanden, zeggende: |
| Finnish | Ja niiden päiväin perästä Elisabet, hänen vaimonsa, tuli raskaaksi ja pysytteli salassa viisi kuukautta, sanoen: |
| French | Quelque temps après, Élisabeth, sa femme, devint enceinte. Elle se cacha pendant cinq mois, disant: |
| German | Und nach den Tagen ward sein Weib Elisabeth schwanger und verbarg sich fünf Monate und sprach: |
| Haitian Creole | Kèk tan apre sa, Elizabèt, madanm li, vin ansent. Li fè senk mwa kache lakay; li t'ap di: |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tidak berapa lama kemudian, Elisabet istrinya mengandung, lalu mengurung diri di rumah lima bulan lamanya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Kemudian daripada itu hamillah Elisabet, isterinya itu, lalu menyembunyikan dirinya lima bulan lamanya, serta berkata, |
| Italian | Dopo quei giorni Elisabetta, sua moglie, concepì e si tenne nascosta per cinque mesi e diceva: |
| Manx Gaelic | As lurg ny laghyn shen ren e ven Elizabeth giennaghtyn, as dollee ee ee-hene queig meeghyn, gra, |
| Maori | Na muri iho i aua ra ka hapu tana wahine, a Erihapeti, a e rima nga marama i whakangaro ai i a ia, a i mea ia, |
| Norwegian | Men efter disse dager blev hans hustru Elisabet fruktsommelig, og hun trakk sig tilbake i ensomhet i fem måneder, og sa: |
| Portuguese | Depois desses dias Isabel, sua mulher, concebeu, e por cinco meses se ocultou, dizendo: |
| Rumanian | Peste cktva timp, Elisaveta, nevasta lui, a rqmas knsqrcinatq, wi s`a yinut ascunsq de tot cinci luni. ,,Cqci``, zicea ea, |
| Russian | рПУМЕ УЙИ ДОЕК ЪБЮБМБ еМЙУБЧЕФБ, ЦЕОБ ЕЗП, Й ФБЙМБУШ РСФШ НЕУСГЕЧ Й ЗПЧПТЙМБ: |
| Shuar | Nuyá ukunam ni nuari Irisapít ajaprukmiayi. Tura senku nantutin aya jean pujusmiayi. |
| Swahili | Baadaye Elisabeti mkewe akapata mimba. Akajificha nyumbani kwa muda wa miezi mitano, akisema: |
| Swedish | Men efter den tiden blev hans hustru Elisabet havande och höll sig dold i fem månader; |
| Uma | Ko'ia mahae ngkai ree, motina'i mpu'u-imi Elisabet. Lima mula kahae-na Elisabet uma mehupa' -hupa' ngkai rala tomi-na, pai' na'uli': |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "secluded": secludedly, secludedness, secludednesses. (additional references) | |
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"Secluded" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: secdule, seclud, secude, secuded, selude. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "secluded" (pronounced sikluw"dud) |
| 7 | -i k l uw" d u d | precluded. |
| 6 | -k l uw" d u d | concluded, excluded, included. |
| 5 | -l uw" d u d | alluded, colluded, deluded, eluded. |
| 4 | -uw" d u d | brooded, denuded, intruded, extruded, exuded, feuded. |
| 3 | -d u d | abounded, acceded, accorded, abided, added, afforded, aided, amended, appended, applauded, apprehended, ascended, astounded, attended, avoided, awarded, backhanded, banded, barricaded, beaded, bearded, bedded, befriended, beheaded, bended, bladed, blended, blinded, blindfolded, blindsided, blockaded, blooded, boarded, bombarded, bonded, bounded, braided, branded, breaded, broadsided, candid, carded, cascaded, ceded, chided, clouded, coded, coincided, collided, commanded, commended, compounded, comprehended, conceded, confided, confounded, contended, corded, corresponded, corroded, crowded, decided, deeded, defended, defrauded, degraded, demanded, depended, derided, descended, disbanded, discarded, invaded, jaded, kidded, landed, larded, lauded, leaded, lightheaded, loaded, lopsided, disregarded, dissuaded, distended, divided, downgraded, downloaded, dreaded, dumbfounded, embedded, encoded, ended, enshrouded, eroded, evaded, evenhanded, exceeded, expanded, expended, exploded, expounded, extended, faded, fended, fielded, flooded, folded, forwarded, founded, funded, gilded, glided, goaded, graded, grounded, guarded, guided, handed, hardheaded, headed, heeded, heralded, herded, hoarded, homesteaded, hooded, hounded, imbedded, impeded, imploded, impounded, intended, interceded, masterminded, melded, mended, minded, misguided, molded, muddleheaded, needed, nodded, offended, outmoded, overcrowded, overextended, overfunded, overloaded, padded, paraded, persuaded, pervaded, pleaded, plodded, pounded, preceded, prerecorded, presided, pretended, prided, proceeded, prodded, propounded, provided, raided, railroaded, rebounded, receded, recommended, recorded, redheaded, refunded, regarded, reloaded, remanded, reminded, remolded, reprimanded, rescinded, resided, responded, retarded, rewarded, rounded, safeguarded, sanded, scalded, scolded, seceded, seconded, seeded, serenaded, shaded, shepherded, shielded, shredded, shrouded, sided, skidded, sordid, sounded, spearheaded, speeded, splendid, stampeded, stranded, studded, subdivided, subsided, succeeded, superseded, surrounded, suspended, tended, threaded, traded, transcended, trended, unaided, unamended, unattended, unbounded, unbranded, undecided, underfunded, underhanded, undivided, unexploded, unfolded, unfounded, unfunded, unguarded, unheeded, unheralded, unimpeded, unintended, unleaded, unloaded, unneeded, unrecorded, upbraided, upgraded, voided, wadded, waded, warded, wedded, weeded, welded, wielded, winded, wooded, worded, wounded, wrongheaded, yielded. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-d-e-e-l-s-u" | |
-1 letter: cuddles, deduces, deludes, seclude, seduced. | |
-2 letters: cuddle, deduce, delude, deuced, deuces, dueled, educed, educes, eluded, eludes, leudes, seduce, sueded. | |
-3 letters: ceded, cedes, clued, clues, deeds, deled, deles, deuce, duces, dudes, duels, dulse, educe, elude, leuds, luces, ludes, slued, suede. | |
-4 letters: cede, cees, cels, clue, cuds, cued, cues, deed, dees, dele, dels, duce, dude, duds. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-d-e-e-l-s-u" | |
+1 letter: scheduled. | |
+2 letters: cuddlesome, secludedly. | |
+3 letters: deductibles, deliquesced, rescheduled, unscheduled. | |
+4 letters: nonscheduled, prescheduled, secludedness. | |
+5 letters: dinucleotides. | |
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