\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}.