hermit
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mɪt noun
1.
a person who has withdrawn to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion.
2.
any person living in seclusion; recluse.
3.
Zoology. an animal of solitary habits.
4.
Ornithology. any of numerous hummingbirds of the genera Glaucis and Phaethornis, having curved bills and dull-colored rather than iridescent plumage.
5.
a spiced molasses cookie often containing raisins or nuts.
Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English ermite, hermite, heremite < Old French < Late Latin erēmīta < Greek erēmītḗs living in a desert, equivalent to erḗm(ia) desert (derivative of erêmos desolate) + -ītēs -ite1
1175–1225; Middle English ermite, hermite, heremite < Old French < Late Latin erēmīta < Greek erēmītḗs living in a desert, equivalent to erḗm(ia) desert (derivative of erêmos desolate) + -ītēs -ite1
Related forms
her·mit·ic, her·mit·i·cal, her·mit·ish, adjective
her·mit·i·cal·ly, adverb
her·mit·like, adjective
her·mit·ry, her·mit·ship, noun
un·her·mit·ic, adjective
Synonyms
1. eremite, monastic, anchorite, cenobite.
1. eremite, monastic, anchorite, cenobite.
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| —n | |
| 1. | one of the early Christian recluses |
| 2. | any person living in solitude |
| [C13: from Old French hermite, from Late Latin erēmīta, from Greek erēmitēs living in the desert, from erēmia desert, from erēmos lonely] | |
| her'mitic | |
| —adj | |
| her'mitical | |
| —adj | |
| her'mitically | |
| —adv | |
| 'hermit-like | |
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Word Origin & History
hermit
1130, from O.Fr. (h)eremite, from L.L. ermita, from Gk. eremites, lit. "person of the desert," from eremia "desert, solitude," from eremos "uninhabited." The hermit crab (1735) was so called for its solitary habits.
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Example sentences
He signed his literary works into the public domain and left his family to live out his final days as a hermit.
The subject of her essay has chosen to live as a hermit, separated from the world for spiritual purposes.
Unlike hermit crabs that live inside their body armor, the veined octopus only uses its armor when it senses danger.
It was an attempt to live by himself and to himself, in fact, to turn modern hermit.
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