| 单词 | hermit |
| 释义 | hermit —hermitic, hermitical, hermitish, adj. —hermitically, adv. —hermitlike, adj. —hermitry, hermitship, n. /herr"mit/, n. 1. a person who has withdrawn to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion. 2. any person living in seclusion; recluse. 3. Zool. an animal of solitary habits. 4. Ornith. 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. 6. Obs. a beadsman. [1175-1225; ME ermite, hermite, heremite < OF < LL eremita < Gk eremités living in a desert, equiv. to erém(ia) desert (deriv. of erêmos desolate) + -ites -ITE1] Syn. 1. eremite, monastic, anchorite, cenobite. |
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