hermit
A religious recluse; someone who lives alone for religious reasons; an eremiteA religious recluse; someone who lives alone for religious reasons; an eremite.
» Tom is a hermit.
Tom ist ein Einsiedler.
Tom ist ein Eremit.
Том — отшельник.
Том — відлюдник.
Том самітник.
Meaning
5 sensesA religious recluse; someone who lives alone for religious reasons; an eremite.
Einsiedler, Eremit, Klausner
отше́льникotšélʹnik, затво́рникzatvórnik
пусте́льникpustélʹnyk
one who lives in solitude
A recluse; someone who lives alone and shuns human companionship.
Einsiedler
отше́льникotšélʹnik, затво́рникzatvórnik
самі́тникsamítnyk, само́тникsamótnyk
A spiced cookie made with molasses, raisins, and nuts.
A hermit crab.
Any in the subfamily Phaethornithinae of hummingbirds.
Examples
14 sentencesTom is a hermit.
Том — відлюдник.
ruТом — отшельник.
deTom ist ein Einsiedler.
The hermit lived in a wooden hut.
ruОтшельник жил в деревянной хижине.
deDer Einsiedler wohnte in einer Holzhütte.
I'm a hermit.
ruЯ отшельник.
Tom lives like a hermit.
ruТом живёт отшельником.
He dressed himself like a hermit for the party last night.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English hermite, heremite, eremite, from Old French eremite, from EcclesiasticFrom Middle English hermite, heremite, eremite, from Old French eremite, from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin eremita, from Ancient Greek ἐρημίτης (erēmítēs, “person of the desert”) from ἐρημία (erēmía, “desert, solitude”), from ἔρημος (érēmos) or ἐρῆμος (erêmos, “uninhabited”) plus -ίτης (-ítēs, “one connected to, a member of”). Doublet of eremite. Displaced native Old English ānsetla.
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Forms
plural: hermitsSynonyms
13 synonyms- one who lives in solitude:reclusesolitarysolitudinariantroglodyte
- one retired from society for religious reasons:anchorite