hermitage

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (18)  · 
“
In times past, the hermitage was a place, not only of religious retirement, but of burial.

View all »
Definitions (9)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (4)

  1. noun The habitation of a hermit or group of hermits.
  2. noun A monastery or abbey.
  3. noun A place where one can live in seclusion; a retreat.
1 more from this dictionary »

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (3)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (1)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • Maybe your hermitage was quiet until the moment you came here.
  • I spent the last week in semi-hermitage, working on things that didn't require too much communication with others and off of IRC. —  Planet KDE
  • Outside their storm-racked hermitage, the rest of the world appears to be flooding, and the final powerful symbolic image of the play is quasi-biblical, with the couple seeking rescue and waving at the rest of humanity adrift on makeshift arks.
  • Later I returned to rest in the desert hermitage, and to build the monastery garden dedicated to the memory, the peace and the prayers of the Blessed Mons. —  National Catholic Reporter
  • On the one hand you accuse me of having a computer in our hermitage, and on the other hand you accuse me of not being upon the internet's world wide list of Benedictines. —  National Catholic Reporter
More examples »
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 57 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (2)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Middle English, from Old French hermitage, from heremite, hermit; see hermit.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. from Middle English hermitage, heremytage, eremitage, Old French hermitage, ermitage, French ermitage, hermitage (= Provencal ermitatge = Portuguese eremitagem = Italian eremitaggio, romitaggio), from hermite, ermite, a hermit: see hermit.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/ˈhərmɪtədʒ/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about once a month.

Recently looked up

sway · macabre · uncharted · juxtapositions · julienne

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

wub wub · merch · these grunts every eight hours · haul it off to our darkest dungeon · send for a doctor