1. Private; secluded; quiet; as, a retired life; a person of retired habits. A retired part of the peninsula. Hawthorne.
2. Withdrawn from active duty or business; as, a retired officer; a retired physician. Retired flank (Fort.), a flank bent inward toward the rear of the work. — Retired list (Mil. & Naval), a list of officers, who, by reason of advanced age or other disability, are relieved from active service, but still receive a specified amount of pay from the government. — Re*tired"ly, adv. — Re*tired"ness, n.
RETIREMENT
Re*tire"ment, n. Etym: [Cf. F. retirement.]
1. 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.
2. 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.
RETIRER
Re*tir"er, n.
Defn: One who retires.
RETIRING
Re*tir"ing, a.
1. Reserved; shy; not forward or obtrusive; as, retiring modesty; retiring manners.