Definitions for recluse

recluse rec·luse

Spelling: [noun rek-loos, ri-kloos; adjective ri-
IPA: /noun ˈrɛk lus, rɪˈklus; adjective rɪˈklus, ˈrɛk lus/

Recluse is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 152 anagrams from letters in recluse (ceelrsu).

Definitions for recluse

noun

  1. a person who lives in seclusion or apart from society, often for religious meditation.
  2. Also, incluse. a religious voluntary immured in a cave, hut, or the like, or one remaining within a cell for life.

adjective

  1. shut off or apart from the world; living in seclusion, often for religious reasons.
  2. characterized by seclusion; solitary.

Origin of recluse

1175-1225; Middle English Old French reclus Late Latin reclūsus, past participle of reclūdere to shut up, equivalent to re- re- + -clūd-, combining form of claudere to

Examples for recluse

But Uchitel became a heavy drug user and, increasingly, a recluse in his sprawling Anchorage estate.

Lee is not a recluse, but she famously stopped granting interviews in 1964.

I am a recluse, have been for many years and rarely stir abroad.

He was not a recluse, however, as the documents and electronic chips recovered by the SEALs from his lair revealed.

The affront so hurt Allan that he became a Beverly Hills recluse, and died in 1999 of liver cancer at the age of 62.

She did not work as devotedly as she had hoped to do, nor did she become a recluse from society.

He was however naturally of an abstemious and recluse disposition.

It was Father Sergius's sixth year as a recluse, and he was now forty-nine.

"It is a long time when it is a year of suspense," said the recluse, shaking his head.

Renato: I would either still be designing or living as a recluse in Europe throwing pottery.

Word Value for recluse
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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