Word Meanings - RETREAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

retrahere; pref. re- re- + trahere to draw. See Trace, and cf. 1. The act of retiring or withdrawing one's self, especially from what is dangerous or disagreeable. In a retreat he oShak. 2. The place to which anyone retires; a place or privacy

Additional info about word: RETREAT

retrahere; pref. re- re- + trahere to draw. See Trace, and cf. 1. The act of retiring or withdrawing one's self, especially from what is dangerous or disagreeable. In a retreat he oShak. 2. The place to which anyone retires; a place or privacy or safety; a refuge; an asylum. He built his son a house of pleasure, and spared no cost to make a delicious retreat. L'Estrange. That pleasing shade they sought, a soft retreat From sudden April showers, a shelter from the heat. Dryden. The retiring of an army or body of men from the face of an enemy, or from any ground occupied to a greater distance from the enemy, or from an advanced position. The withdrawing of a ship or fleet from an enemy for the purpose of avoiding an engagement or escaping after defeat. A signal given in the army or navy, by the beat of a drum or the sounding of trumpet or bugle, at sunset , or for retiring from action. Note: A retreat is properly an orderly march, in which circumstance it differs from a flight. A special season of solitude and silence to engage in religious exercises. A period of several days of withdrawal from society to a religious house for exclusive occupation in the duties of devotion; as, to appoint or observe a retreat. Syn. -- Retirement; departure; withdrawment; seclusion; solitude; privacy; asylum; shelter; refuge.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RETREAT)

• Abscond
• Decamp
• bolt
• depart
• disappear
• steal away
• run off
• hide
• withdraw
• retreat
• Bower
• Shady recess
• arbor
• alcove
• Corner
• Cavity
• hole
• nook
• recess
• Privacy
• Retirement
• secrecy
• solitude
• seclusion
• concealment
• Recede
• Retire
• retrograde
• return
• ebb

Related words: (words related to RETREAT)

• DISAPPEARING
  p. pr. & vb. n. of Disappear. Disappearing carriage , a carriage for heavy coast guns on which the gun is raised above the parapet for firing and upon discharge is lowered behind the parapet for protection. The standard type of disappearing
• ABSCOND
  1. To hide, withdraw, or be concealed. The marmot absconds all winter. Ray. 2. To depart clandestinely; to steal off and secrete one's self; -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor. That very
• RECESSED
  1. Having a recess or recesses; as, a recessed arch or wall. 2. Withdrawn; secluded. "Comfortably recessed from curious impertinents." Miss Edgeworth. Recessed arch , one of a series of arches constructed one within another so as to correspond
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• DEPARTURE
  The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
• DEPARTMENT
  1. Act of departing; departure. Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's
• ARBORET
  A small tree or shrub. Spenser. Among thick-woven arborets, and flowers Imbordered on each bank. Milton.
• RETURNLESS
  Admitting no return. Chapman.
• ARBORICULTURAL
  Pertaining to arboriculture. Loudon.
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• ARBORICULTURIST
  One who cultivates trees.
• DECAMPMENT
  Departure from a camp; a marching off.
• SECRECY
  1. The state or quality of being hidden; as, his movements were detected in spite of their secrecy. The Lady Anne, Whom the king hath in secrecy long married. Shak. 2. That which is concealed; a secret. Shak. 3. Seclusion; privacy; retirement.
• DEPARTMENTAL
  Pertaining to a department or division. Burke.
• RECEDE
  1. To move back; to retreat; to withdraw. Like the hollow roar Of tides receding from the instituted shore. Dryden. All bodies moved circularly endeavor to recede from the center. Bentley. 2. To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist;
• WITHDRAWAL
  The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.
• ARBOR DIANAE
  A precipitation of silver, in a beautiful arborescent form.
• ARBORICOLE
  Tree-inhabiting; -- said of certain birds.
• RECESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to recession or withdrawal. Recessional hymn, a hymn sung in a procession returning from the choir to the robing room.
• STEALINGLY
  By stealing, or as by stealing, furtively, or by an invisible motion. Sir P. Sidney.
• RECESS
  A sinus. (more info) 1. A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides. Every degree of ignorance being so far a recess and degradation from rationality. South. My recess hath given them confidence that I may be
• EMBOWER
  To lodge or rest in a bower. "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Spenser. (more info) -- v. i.
• DISEMBOWERED
  Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. Bryant.
• UNHARBOR
  To drive from harbor or shelter.
• PRECEDENTLY
  Beforehand; antecedently.
• PRECESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to pression; as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes.
• THREE-CORNERED
  Having three prominent longitudinal angles; as, a three- cornered stem. (more info) 1. Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat.
• SUBPERIOSTEAL
  Situated under the periosteum. Subperiosteal operation , a removal of bone effected without taking away the periosteum.