Category: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.