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/ritˈaɪərmənt/ /rɪtˈaɪərmənt/ Listen

noun

Retirement n.

The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer. "O, blest Retirement, friend of life's decline." "Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books."

A place of seclusion or privacy; a place to which one withdraws or retreats; a private abode. (Archaic) "This coast full of princely retirements for the sumptousness of their buildings and nobleness of the plantations." "Caprea had been the retirement of Augustus."

Synonyms: Solitude; withdrawment; departure; retreat; seclusion; privacy. See Solitude.

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Etymology of 'Retirement'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Retirement" Quotes from Famous Books

... Cuthbert, who was not at all bad, only queer and sleepy, and had to be led away to slumber in retirement. Also, it was an exceptionally low tide and Mr. Shaw had counted on taking advantage of it to work in the cave. Now ...

— Spanish Doubloons • Camilla Kenyon

... the orchestra died from drowning by soup, or from the shock to his professional vanity, or was scalded to death, the doctors were never wholly able to agree. Monsieur Aristide Saucourt, who now lives in complete retirement, always inclined ...

— The Chronicles of Clovis • Saki

... lord, I had some distinguished acquaintances here; but now I propose to live in retirement, and do not ...

— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

... audience, great judgment was necessary in venturing on any such change. The poets never, therefore, attempted to impose on the senses by bringing places to men, but they did bring men to places, as in the well-known instance in the Eumenides, where, during an evident retirement of the chorus from the orchestra, the scene is changed to Athens, and Orestes is first introduced in the temple of Minerva, and the chorus of Furies come in afterwards ...

— Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher • S. T. Coleridge

... of how best I could make my offer so as not to agitate her by its seeming prematureness, when I was very much troubled on coming to the conservatory (meaning to enter) to see you, a powerful rival, in the blissful retirement of this boudoir with the woman I have, perhaps unfortunately, conceived, such passionate love for. I was as if chained to the spot and, when you were alone, determined to enter and ask you if my worst fears are true. Are you a successful ...

— A Heart-Song of To-day • Annie Gregg Savigny

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