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recluses

recluses is the plural of recluse.

recluses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of recluse.

Meaning of recluse

Noun

recluse (plural recluses)

  1. (archaic) A person who lives in self-imposed isolation or seclusion from the world, especially for religious purposes; a hermit.
    • 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 the recluse.1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xv
  2. (archaic, obsolete) The place where a recluse dwells; a place of isolation or seclusion.
    • that day of appearance taken out of the recluse and committed to safe custody1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC
  3. (archaic) See also Thesaurus:recluse

See all 6 meanings of recluse

Phrases with recluses

Questions about recluses

What is recluses the plural of?
Recluses is the plural of recluse.

Words near recluses in the dictionary

  1. reclused
  2. reclusely
  3. recluseness
  4. recluseries
  5. reclusery
  6. recluses
  7. reclusing
  8. reclusion
  9. reclusions
  10. reclusive
  11. reclusively

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Adapted from Wiktionary: recluses (page history and authors); recluse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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