Re-tire'ment, n.
n. 1. The act of retiring or withdrawing from company or from public notice or station. Milton.
Sense 2. The state of being retired or withdrawn.
The king, sir, is in his retirement, marvelously distempered. Shak.
Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, Progressive virtue and approving Heaven. Thomson.
Sense 3. The place to which any one retires; habitation secluded from much society or from public life; private abode.
This coast full of princely retirements for the sumptuousness of their buildings and nobleness of the plantations. Evelyn.
Caprea had been the retirement of Augustus. Addison.
Synonyms— Solitude; withdrawment; departure; retreat; seclusion; privacy. See SOLITUDE.