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RETIREMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation
Example:
the religious retreat is a form of vacation activity
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("retirement" is a kind of...):
withdrawal (the act of withdrawing)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Withdrawal from your position or occupation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("retirement" is a kind of...):
conclusion; ending; termination (the act of ending something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "retirement"):
hibernation (the act of retiring into inactivity)
rustication (the action of retiring to and living in the country)
Derivation:
retire (go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position)
retire (withdraw from active participation)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The state of being retired from one's business or occupation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("retirement" is a kind of...):
position; status (the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society)
Derivation:
retire (go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position)
Context examples:
She could remember dozens who had persevered in every possible vice, going on from crime to crime, murdering whomsoever they chose, without any feeling of humanity or remorse; till a violent death or a religious retirement closed their black career.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
You have been tutored and refined by books and retirement from the world, and you are therefore somewhat fastidious; but this only renders you the more fit to appreciate the extraordinary merits of this wonderful man.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Captain Harville had taken his present house for half a year; his taste, and his health, and his fortune, all directing him to a residence inexpensive, and by the sea; and the grandeur of the country, and the retirement of Lyme in the winter, appeared exactly adapted to Captain Benwick's state of mind.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Design could never bring them in each other's way: negligence could never leave them exposed to a surprise; and chance had less in its favour in the crowd of London than even in the retirement of Barton, where it might force him before her while paying that visit at Allenham on his marriage, which Mrs. Dashwood, from foreseeing at first as a probable event, had brought herself to expect as a certain one.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
As if, in the retirement of the house made almost sacred to me by her presence, Dora and I must be happier than anywhere.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Oh! but dear Miss Woodhouse, she is now in such retirement, such obscurity, so thrown away.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
If you have been meaning to put your savings into a retirement account or write a will, this would be an ideal time to organize all your paperwork.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
I mounted into the window- seat: gathering up my feet, I sat cross-legged, like a Turk; and, having drawn the red moreen curtain nearly close, I was shrined in double retirement.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He was released from the engagement to be mortified and unhappy, till some other pretty girl could attract him into matrimony again, and he might set forward on a second, and, it is to be hoped, more prosperous trial of the state: if duped, to be duped at least with good humour and good luck; while she must withdraw with infinitely stronger feelings to a retirement and reproach which could allow no second spring of hope or character.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Instead of falling a sacrifice to an irresistible passion, as once she had fondly flattered herself with expecting,—instead of remaining even for ever with her mother, and finding her only pleasures in retirement and study, as afterwards in her more calm and sober judgment she had determined on,—she found herself at nineteen, submitting to new attachments, entering on new duties, placed in a new home, a wife, the mistress of a family, and the patroness of a village.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
