Usually means: Person who avoids social interaction.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word recluse:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. recluse: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. recluse: Merriam-Webster
  3. recluse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. recluse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. recluse: Collins English Dictionary
  6. recluse: Vocabulary.com
  7. Recluse, recluse: Wordnik
  8. recluse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. recluse: Wiktionary
  10. recluse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. recluse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. recluse: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Recluse, recluse: Dictionary.com
  14. recluse (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. recluse: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Recluse, The Recluse (Plan B song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Recluse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. recluse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. recluse: Rhymezone
  20. recluse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. recluse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. recluse: FreeDictionary.org
  23. recluse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. recluse: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recluse: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recluse: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. recluse: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. recluse: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See recluses as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (now rare) Sequestered; secluded, isolated.
adjective:  (now rare) Hidden, secret.
noun:  A person who lives in self-imposed isolation or seclusion from the world, especially for religious purposes; a hermit.
noun:  (obsolete) The place where a recluse dwells; a place of isolation or seclusion.
noun:  (US) A brown recluse spider.
noun:  See also Thesaurus:recluse
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To shut; to seclude.

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