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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Seclude \Se*clude\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Secluded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Secluding}.] [L. secludere, seclusum; pref. se- aside + claudere to shut. See {Close}, verb (used with an object)]
1. To shut up apart from others; to withdraw into, or place in, solitude; to separate from society or intercourse with others.
Let Eastern tyrants from the light of heaven Seclude their bosom slaves. --Thomson.
2. To shut or keep out; to exclude. [Obs.] --Evelyn. -- {Se*clud"ed*ly}, adverb -- {Se*clud"ed*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
secluded
adjective
1: hidden from general view or use; "a privy place to rest and think"; "a secluded romantic spot"; "a secret garden" [syn: {privy}, {secret}]
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" [syn: {cloistered}, {reclusive}, {sequestered}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
115 Moby Thesaurus words for "secluded": abstruse, alone, anonymous, apart, at rest, beclouded, blind, buried, calm, cloistered, close, closet, clouded, concealed, cool, covered, covert, detached, dwindling, ebbing, eclipsed, eremitic, even-tenored, far-off, halcyon, hermetic, hid, hidden, hushed, impassive, in a backwater, in a cloud, in a fog, in eclipse, in purdah, in the wings, incognito, incommunicado, inmost, innermost, insular, interior, intimate, inward, isolated, latent, lonely, moldering, monastic, mysterious, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, occult, out-of-the-way, out-of-the-world, pacific, peaceable, peaceful, personal, placid, private, privy, quarantined, quiescent, quiet, recluse, recondite, remote, removed, reposeful, reposing, restful, resting, retired, screened, secluse, seclusive, secret, segregated, separate, separated, sequestered, sequestrated, sheltered, shut off, shy, smooth, solitary, still, still as death, stillish, stilly, stoic, stolid, subsiding, tranquil, unagitated, under an eclipse, under cover, under house arrest, under wraps, underground, undisturbed, unfrequented, unknown, unmoved, unperturbed, unruffled, unstirring, untroubled, unvisited, waning, withdrawn, wrapped in clouds
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