OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 15143

recluse

/ɹɪˈkluːs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
ermitaño • reclusado • recluso • solitario
A person who lives in self-imposed isolation or seclusion from the world, especially for religious purposes; a hermit.
First, the president’s uncle died in 1985. Kaczynski was publicly revealed as the Unabomber more than a decade later, in 1996, when he was captured; before that, he had lived as a…
The recluse in the fable kept a cat to keep off the rats, and then a cow to feed the cat with milk, and a man to keep the cow and so on. My ambitions also grew like the family of t…
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