retirement Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun the state of being retired from one's business or occupation
noun withdrawal from your position or occupation
noun withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation
retreat.
- the religious retreat is a form of vacation activity

Cf. F. retirement.

The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer.
O, blest Retirement, friend of life's decline. Goldsmith.

Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books. Thomson.
A place of seclusion or privacy; a place to which one withdraws or retreats; a private abode. Archaic
This coast full of princely retirements for the sumptousness of their buildings and nobleness of the plantations. Evelyn.

Caprea had been the retirement of Augustus. Addison.
Syn. -- Solitude; withdrawment; departure; retreat; seclusion; privacy. See Solitude.