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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The act of retiring.
  2. n. The state of being retired.
  3. n. Withdrawal from one's occupation, business, or office.
  4. n. Withdrawal into privacy or seclusion.
  5. n. A place of privacy or seclusion; a retreat. See Synonyms at solitude.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The act of retiring or withdrawing from action, service, use, sight, public notice, or company; withdrawal: as, the retirement of an army from battle; the retirement of bonds; the retirement of invalid soldiers from service; retirement into the country.
  2. n. The state of being retired from society or public life; seclusion; a private manner of life.
  3. n. The state of being abstracted or withdrawn.
  4. n. A retired or sequestered place; a place to which one withdraws for privacy or freedom from public or social cares.
  5. n. Recovery; retrieval.
  6. n. Synonyms Seclusion, Loneliness, etc. See solitude.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An act of retiring; withdrawal.
  2. n. uncountable The state of being retired; seclusion.
  3. n. The portion of one's life after retiring from one's career.
  4. n. obsolete A place of seclusion or privacy; a place to which one withdraws or retreats; a private abode.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion.
  2. n. Archaic A place of seclusion or privacy; a place to which one withdraws or retreats; a private abode.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation
  2. n. withdrawal from your position or occupation
  3. n. the state of being retired from one's business or occupation

Etymologies

  1. From French, from retirer ("withdraw”, often used reflexively “retire"), from re- + tirer ("draw, tear away") + English suffix -ment. (Wiktionary)

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synonyms (7)

Words with the same meaning

  1. retreat
  1. privacy
  1. departure
  1. solitude
  1. seclusion
  1. withdrawment
  1. withdrawal

hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. withdrawal
  1. position
  1. status

same context (22)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. seclusion
  2. retreat
  3. pension
  4. resignation
  1. repose
  2. leisure
  3. withdrawal
  4. exile
  1. isolation
  2. peace
  3. obscurity
  4. surrender
  1. separation
  2. poverty
  3. occupation
  4. privacy
  1. residence
  2. health
  3. departure
  4. investment
  1. promotion
  2. income

rhymes (1)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. postretirement

reverse dictionary (124)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. individual retirement account
  2. ira
  3. Keogh plan
  4. 401-k
  5. 401-k plan
  6. villeggiatura
  7. retirement
  8. solitude
  9. retiring
  10. retire
  11. fireside
  12. IRA
  13. lucubration
  14. put
  15. loneliness
  16. infrequence
  17. delitescence
  18. country seat
  19. closet
  20. umbratic
  21. umbratile
  22. reclusely
  23. recluseness
  24. reclusion
  1. reclusive
  2. removedness
  3. secess
  4. secluded
  5. seclusive
  6. sequestered
  7. Janenz
  8. nasri's
  9. Baluch's
  10. cloister
  11. cloistress
  12. contentment
  13. emeritus
  14. eligible
  15. Sunrise
  16. unretire
  17. Roth IRA
  18. Scottsdale
  19. Costa del Sol
  20. time
  21. opt
  22. impend
  23. vesting
  24. Laid-off
  1. 401(k)
  2. retired
  3. abscondence
  4. background
  5. forth
  6. treasury shares
  7. treasury stock
  8. senior citizen
  9. RRB
  10. Shoemaker
  11. reserve clause
  12. emerita
  13. touch
  14. turf
  15. pension account
  16. pension fund
  17. pension plan
  18. peter mark roget
  19. reacquired stock
  20. retirement account
  21. retirement plan
  22. retirement program
  23. retirement savings account
  24. retirement savings plan
  1. Roget
  2. swan song
  3. attrition
  4. contemplate
  5. early
  6. retreat
  7. withdrawal
  8. pension
  9. Hollywood
  10. golden years
  11. last hurrah
  12. retiracy
  13. monastery
  14. nest egg
  15. privacy
  16. private
  17. privateness
  18. privy
  19. recess
  20. retiring pension
  21. rota
  22. secrecy
  23. secret
  24. sequestration
  1. to take the veil
  2. weather house
  3. withdrawing-room
  4. back
  5. bury
  6. commune
  7. couch
  8. eremite
  9. grass
  10. half pay
  11. hoard
  12. invasion
  13. lettered
  14. mew
  15. monachism
  16. monasticism
  17. obscurity
  18. recession
  19. secession
  20. seclusion
  21. second
  22. secretly
  23. shadow
  24. solitariness
  1. sociétaire
  2. up
  3. walk
  4. weather-box

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Words tagged ‘retirement’

  1. danpatsu-shiki
  1. villeggiatura

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