recluse

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A person who chooses to live alone and avoid other people.

   After his wife died, he became a recluse and rarely left the house.

2. 2
   adj

   Living alone and away from other people; secluded.

   The writer led a recluse life in a cabin in the mountains.

From Old French reclus, past participle of reclure, from Latin reclūdere (“to disclose, to open”), from re- + claudō (“close”).

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