RETIREMENTS

Noun

retirements

plural of retirement

Source: Wiktionary


RETIREMENT

Re*tire"ment, n. Etym: [Cf. F. retirement.]

1. 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. Goldsmith. Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books. Thomson.

2. 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. Evelyn. Caprea had been the retirement of Augustus. Addison.

Syn.

– Solitude; withdrawment; departure; retreat; seclusion; privacy. See Solitude.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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