SECLUDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does secluded mean? 

• SECLUDED (adjective)
  The adjective SECLUDED has 2 senses:

1. hidden from general view or use

2. providing privacy or seclusion

  Familiarity information: SECLUDED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SECLUDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hidden from general view or use

Synonyms:

privy; secluded; secret

Context example:

a secret garden

Similar:

private (confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Providing privacy or seclusion

Synonyms:

cloistered; reclusive; secluded; sequestered

Context example:

a secluded romantic spot

Similar:

private (confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy)

 Context examples 

The stack of Capricorn planets in your secluded twelfth house would also give you the chance to take care of a surgery your doctor has been telling you need.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It would be a charming introduction for you, who have lived so secluded a life; and I could immediately secure you some of the best society in the place.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, after all.

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

A short walk brought us to a secluded road fringed with pleasant houses, each standing in its own grounds.

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

My life had hitherto been remarkably secluded and domestic, and this had given me invincible repugnance to new countenances.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The schoolroom was a pretty large hall, on the quietest side of the house, confronted by the stately stare of some half-dozen of the great urns, and commanding a peep of an old secluded garden belonging to the Doctor, where the peaches were ripening on the sunny south wall.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

To be sure, it would have been more for the advantage of conversation had Miss Lydia Bennet come upon the town; or, as the happiest alternative, been secluded from the world, in some distant farmhouse.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It was not without some emotion that he looked upon the scene around him, for, in spite of his secluded life, he knew enough of the ancient greatness of his own family to be aware that the time had been when they had held undisputed and paramount sway over all that tract of country.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But great allowances should be given to a king, who lives wholly secluded from the rest of the world, and must therefore be altogether unacquainted with the manners and customs that most prevail in other nations: the want of which knowledge will ever produce many prejudices, and a certain narrowness of thinking, from which we, and the politer countries of Europe, are wholly exempted.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The quaint old garden had sheltered many pairs of lovers, and seemed expressly made for them, so sunny and secluded was it, with nothing but the tower to overlook them, and the wide lake to carry away the echo of their words, as it rippled by below.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)