RETREATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does retreated mean? 

• RETREATED (noun)
  The noun RETREATED has 1 sense:

1. people who have retreated

  Familiarity information: RETREATED used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RETREATED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

People who have retreated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

he had only contempt for the retreated

Hypernyms ("retreated" is a kind of...):

people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)

 Context examples 

Buck retreated two or three steps.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

It drew aside the window-curtain and looked out; perhaps it saw dawn approaching, for, taking the candle, it retreated to the door.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

EXAMPLE(S): The subject is not being followed and will not be retreated.

(Performed Study Subject Milestone Off Study Date, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

And it retreated up the stairs?

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Elton had retreated into the card-room, looking (Emma trusted) very foolish.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

But while she did so, the gentleman retreated, and her partner, coming nearer, said, I see that you guess what I have just been asked.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Then he had retreated with it to his room and slung it aloft.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then he could not have retreated down the road, and you say that there are no side roads?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Nevertheless he remained, sleeping and resting by the spring, and eating the food they gave him after they set it down at a safe distance and retreated.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Over the past 26 years, the glacier’s terminus has retreated more than 5 kilometers (3 miles).

(Retreat of Yakutat Glacier, NASA)