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单词 hermitage
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hermitage

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noun (1)

her·​mit·​age ˈhər-mə-tij How to pronounce hermitage (audio)
1
a
: the habitation of a hermit
b
: a secluded residence or private retreat : hideaway
c
: monastery
2
: the life or condition of a hermit

Hermitage

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noun (2)

Her·​mi·​tage ˌ(h)er-mi-ˈtäzh How to pronounce Hermitage (audio)
: a red or white Rhone valley wine

Synonyms

Noun (1)

  • concealment
  • covert
  • den
  • hideaway
  • hideout
  • hidey-hole
  • hidy-hole
  • lair
  • nest
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Example Sentences

Noun (1) On weekends he escapes to his hermitage in the mountains. the artist's desert hermitage was a small adobe house at the end of a long dusty road
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
Many saw it as their path back to a pre-Covid life, or at least to seeing family and friends again after a two-year hermitage. Jason Mast, STAT, 23 July 2022 Today, there are two lodges, two cottages, a hermitage cabin, and eight RV sites. Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 16 July 2022 One man even wrote to Edward III in the late 1330s, saying that his father was living in a hermitage in Italy. Anne Thériault, Longreads, 21 June 2022 And Russian and Ukrainian officials traded blame for the burning of the main temple of the All Saints hermitage, a 16th-century monastery in eastern Ukraine that is considered one of the three most sacred sites in Ukraine for Orthodox believers. Jason Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2022 Manyava flourished, becoming the dominant hermitage in Galicia, until its abrupt closure in 1785, the dispersal of its monks, and the confiscation of the Bohorodchany Iconostasis and other icons. Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2022 Most of this writing was done at the Encinitas hermitage, which was secretly built for Yogananda as a surprise during his years abroad. San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2022 Janakananda, who built the Encinitas hermitage, succeeded him as Fellowship president until his own death three years later in Borrego Springs. San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2022 Perhaps the most memorable corner of Jeollanam-do is Chunjinam, the tranquil hermitage where Jeong Kwan resides. Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Dec. 2021 See More

Word History

Etymology

Noun (2)

Tain-l'Ermitage, commune in France

First Known Use

Noun (1)

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Noun (2)

1680, in the meaning defined above

hermitage

noun

1
as in hideout
a place where a person goes to hide or to avoid others the artist's desert hermitage was a small adobe house at the end of a long dusty road

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • hideout
  • lair
  • nest
  • hideaway
  • den
  • refuge
  • concealment
  • hidey-hole
  • hidy-hole
  • shelter
  • covert
  • retreat
  • nook
  • haunt
  • redoubt
  • blind
  • harbor
  • hangout
  • haven
  • recess
  • harborage
  • cover
2
as in monastery
a residence for men under religious vows monks in that hermitage take a vow of silence

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • monastery
  • cloister
  • abbey
  • convent
  • priory
  • friary
  • nunnery
  • lamasery
  • house
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