hermit
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6.1
- noun
- /ˈhɜːrmɪt/
:
ermitaño
- I wasn't super excited about having people that I didn't know because I tend to be a hermit and a loner.
- the hermit lived alone
- the hermit's life
- old hermit
So forest dwelling hermits and crab fishermen who had been swept out to sea.
- So forest dwelling hermits and crab fishermen who had been swept out to sea.
- In that sense, it's almost a an opposite of the kind of monasticism that hermits or pillar Saints practice.
- So I think I will be very much a hermit this weekend, but out of choice this time.
- I wasn't super excited about having people that I didn't know because I tend to be a hermit and a loner.
- Her death turned me into something pretty close to a hermit, and Facebook and Mmos were are my only real social outlets.
- Maybe you, O hermit living on locusts and out in the desert, have some spiritual power to help my baby.
- And it's not like I'm a hermit or a monk, but the point is to shut everything down, to put space and time in between.
- You know, your seekers, your hermits, Daryl, there will be flighty.
- It can also mean, you know, it's a word we get hermit from being being alone, right?
Examples
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The notion of Saudi Arabia as a hermit kingdom, closed to the world, is an image from the past.
Academic text (2008) -
She needs to become more social and start making friends instead of staying up in her room like a hermit.
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So I think I will be very much a hermit this weekend, but out of choice this time.
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My mother was a hermit, and she took me with her when I was a baby:
Fiction book (1992) -
I need to speak to the hermit.
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And I am living like a medieval hermit.
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She lives like a hermit and plays golf in the snow.
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After her retirement, Garbo spent her days wandering around Manhattan, a hermit about town.
Fiction book (1999) -
"You're turning into a hermit, Bobby," he said, rolling the Stroganoff in his mouth.
Fiction book (1994) -
For many years, she chose to live as a hermit in a secluded cabin deep in the woods.
Synonyms
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4.2
A person who prefers to be alone and avoids spending time with others
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7.8
A person who lives alone and avoids other people
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7.2
A person who lives alone and avoids the company of others
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9.9
A person who lives apart from others to pray and study
A person who lives alone for religious reasons, often in the Christian faith
A person who chooses to live alone away from other people
A person who lives alone and avoids meeting other people
Antonyms
Compounds
- Literature
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8.8
A country that keeps itself very separate from other countries, for example North Korea
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7.9
A North American bird with a brown back and spotted breast that sings beautifully
How Solitary
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hermit comes from an old Greek word eremos, which means 'desert' or empty place because early hermits went into deserts or remote areas to live alone. So a hermit today is someone who lives apart from others, often for religious reasons or quiet thought.