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UK
/hˈɜːmɪt/
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[ US /ˈhɝmət/ ]
[ US /ˈhɝmət/ ]
NOUN
- one who lives in solitude
- one retired from society for religious reasons
How To Use hermit In A Sentence
- At the Hermitage in Geelong on February 20, 1911, Granny recalled seeing the first Bristol Box Kite aeroplane to fly in Australia, a black speck that first appeared over the You Yangs. Archive 2009-03-01
- I do get that hermitic urge. I'm quite anti-social in some ways, even with my mates.
- The hermit, the bachelor uncle, the reclusive genius, all have their place; I think it was once more recognised than today, when everyone is supposed to be good at relationships even if they're no good at anything else.
- A cenobite is usually a monk in a monastery, as opposed to an anchorite, who is a monk living alone (also called an ‘eremite’ or ‘hermit’).
- Also patron of beggars, hermits, horses, the physically disabled, and the woods.
- The award recognized the challenges involved in the building project and its sympathetic approach to the hermitage, which provides a place for the hermit monks, both male and female to live a life of solitude.
- No medieval hagiographer better satisfied the need for historical ‘facts’ and for hagiographical ‘types’ (David, Elijah, Antony the Hermit).
- Discover the hermit thrush as you hike through shady maple and hemlock groves, or encounter bobolinks in golden hayfields and northern waterthrush in subarctic swamplands.
- Today, Mount Athos is home to some 1,800 monks living in 20 monasteries and outlying hermitages. A Fossil With Flesh
- He had hoped to meet Simon by now, in the pub or somewhere, but the lad seemed to lead a hermitical existence apart from going out with the girl, whatever her name was. The Fifth Rapunzel