RETIREMENT

retirement. Retirement, n. a private abode, or manner of life

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Re‐tire″ment (?), n. [[Cf. F. retirement.]] 1. 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. 2. A place of seclusion or privacy; a place to which one withdraws or retreats; a private abode.
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.