Hermit

Noun

 * 1) A religious recluse; someone who lives alone for religious reasons; an eremite.
 * 2) A recluse; someone who lives alone and shuns human companionship.
 * 3) A spiced cookie made with molasses, raisins, and nuts.

Synonyms

 * eremite
 * See also Thesaurus:recluse

Derived terms

 * hermit crab
 * hermitage
 * hermitize

Adjectives for Hermit
stalwart; genial; lesser; lone; withered; solitary.

Thesaurus
Albigensian, Catharist, Diogenes, Franciscan, Hieronymian, Hieronymite, Sabbatarian, Timon of Athens, Trappist, Waldensian, abbacomes, abbot, abstainer, alien, anchoress, anchoret, anchorite, ascetic, beadsman, bedridden invalid, bhikshu, brother, caloyer, case, celibate, cenobite, character, cloistered monk, closet cynic, conventual, conventual prior, crackpot, crank, dervish, desert fathers, desert saints, eccentric, eremite, fakir, fanatic, flagellant, friar, grand prior, hermitess, hieromonach, hobo, homebody, invalid, isolationist, kook, lay abbot, lay brother, lone wolf, loner, marabout, maverick, mendicant, meshuggenah, monastic, monk, natural, nonconformist, nut, odd fellow, oddball, oddity, original, outcast, outsider, palmer, pariah, pilgrim, pillar saint, pillarist, prior, puritan, queer duck, queer fish, queer specimen, rara avis, recluse, religieux, religious, sannyasi, screwball, seclusionist, shut-in, solitaire, solitary, solitudinarian, stay-at-home, stylite, tramp, type, yogi, yogin, zealot

Etymology
From eremite, from  eremita:, from  ἐρημίτης (eremites, "person of the desert") from ἐρημία (eremia, "desert, solitude", from ἔρημος or ἐρῆμος eremos "uninhabited") plus the -ίτης suffix.

Pronunciation




Translations

 * Arabic: راهب
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: ermità
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient:
 * Modern: ερημίτης, αναχωρητής


 * Hungarian: remete
 * Latin:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: aonaran
 * Spanish: ermitaño
 * Swedish: eremit


 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Greek: ερημίτης
 * Hungarian: remete


 * Latin:
 * Polish:, odludek
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: aonaran
 * Spanish: ermitaño


 * : Einsiedler, Eremit , Anachoret , Klausner
 * : eremita, anacoreta


 * : eremita
 * : pustinjak, otšelnik

Anagrams

 * mither