Recluse

a.	1.	Shut up, sequestered; retired from the world or from public notice; solitary; living apart; as, a recluse monk or hermit; a recluse life In meditation deep, recluse From human converse. - J. Philips.
n.	1.	A person who lives in seclusion from intercourse with the world, as a hermit or monk; specifically, one of a class of secluded devotees who live in single cells, usually attached to monasteries.
	2.	The place where a recluse dwells.
v. t.	1.	To shut up; to seclude.

Noun	1.	recluse - one who lives in solitude Synonyms: solitudinarian, troglodyte, hermit, solitary
Adj.	1.	recluse - withdrawn from society; seeking solitude; "lived an unsocial reclusive life" Synonyms: reclusive, withdrawn

Diogenes, Hieronymian, Hieronymite, Timon of Athens, anchoress, anchorite, anchoritic, ascetic, bedridden invalid, cenobite, character, cloistered, cloistered monk, closet cynic, crackpot, crank, desert fathers, desert saints, domestic, eccentric, eremitic, erratic, flake, freak, hermetic, hermitess, hermitic, hermitish, homebody, invalid, isolationist, kook, marabout, monk, nonconformist, nun, nut, oddball, outcast, pariah, pillar saint, pillarist, screwball, secluse, seclusionist, seclusive, sequestered, shut in, shut up, shut-in, solitaire, solitary, solitudinarian, stay-at-home, strange duck, stylite, weirdo

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