retirement
NounUS[ree-tahy-er-muhnt]/riˈtaɪɚmənt/4 syllablesalso [rih-tahy-er-muhnt] /rɪˈtaɪɚmənt/
Synonyms:
retreat
Open English WordNet
Noun (3)
- the state of being retired from one's business or occupationType of status, position
- withdrawal from your position or occupationType of termination, endingKinds hibernation, rustication
- withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation“the religious retreat is a form of vacation activity”Synonyms: retreatType of withdrawal
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Translations
Noun leaving work permanently, being retired
- Spanish
- jubilación
- French
- retraite
- German
- Ruhestand
- Italian
- pensionamento
- Portuguese
- aposentadoria
- Turkish
- emeklilik
- Russian
- вы́ход на пе́нсию výxod na pénsiju
- Arabic
- تَقَاعُد taqāʕud
- Chinese
- 退休 tuìxiū
- Japanese
- 退職 taishoku
36 more languages
- Dutch
- pensioen
- Polish
- emerytura
- Swedish
- pension
- Greek
- σύνταξη sýntaxi
- Korean
- 퇴직 toejik
- Indonesian
- pensiun
- Vietnamese
- nghỉ hưu
- Hungarian
- nyugdíjba vonulás
- Portuguese (PT)
- reforma
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 退休 tuìxiū
- Albanian
- dalje në pension
- Breton
- leve
- Catalan
- jubilació
- Corsican
- pensione
- Czech
- důchod
- Danish
- pension
- Esperanto
- emeritiĝo
- Estonian
- pensionile jäämine
- Finnish
- eläköityminen
- Georgian
- პენსიაზე გასვლა ṗensiaze gasvla
- Hebrew
- פרישה prisha
- Icelandic
- starfslok
- Kurdish
- teqawidî
- Latvian
- pensionēšanās
- Lithuanian
- pensija
- Malagasy
- fisotroan-dronono
- Norwegian
- pensjonering
- Romanian
- pensionare
- Scottish Gaelic
- cluaineas
- Serbo-Croatian
- penzija
- Slovak
- dôchodok
- Slovenian
- upokojitev
- Swahili
- kustaafu
- Walloon
- rtraite
- Welsh
- ymddeoliad
- Yiddish
- פּענסיע pensye
Noun place of seclusion or privacy
- French
- retraite
- Russian
- уедине́ние ujedinénije
- Japanese
- 隠れ家 kakurega
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Re·tire′ment noun
Origin: 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.— Oliver Goldsmith
Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books.— James 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.— John Evelyn
Caprea had been the retirement of Augustus.— Joseph Addison
Synonyms: Solitude; withdrawment; departure; retreat; seclusion; privacy. See Solitude.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54