recluse

noun

A person who withdraws from the world to live in seclusion and often in solitude.

adjective

Withdrawn from the world; reclusive.

To shut up; seclude; withdraw from intercourse.

Shut up or apart from the world; retired from public notice; sequestered; solitary; existing or passed in a solitary state: as, a recluse monk or hermit; a recluse life.

noun

A person who withdraws from the world to spend his days in seclusion and meditation; specifically, a member of a religious community who is voluntarily immured for life in a single cell.

noun

A place of seclusion; a retired or quiet situation; a hermitage, convent, or the like.

transitive verb

To shut up; to seclude.

noun

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.

noun

The place where a recluse dwells.

adjective

Shut up, sequestered; retired from the world or from public notice; solitary; living apart