Retirement \Re*tire"ment\, n. [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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)