HERMIT

hermit, recluse, solitary, solitudinarian, troglodyte

(noun) one who lives in solitude

anchorite, hermit

(noun) one retired from society for religious reasons

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

hermit (plural hermits)

A religious recluse; someone who lives alone for religious reasons; an eremite.

A recluse; someone who lives alone and shuns human companionship.

A spiced cookie made with molasses, raisins, and nuts.

A hermit crab.

A hummingbird in the subfamily Phaethornithinae.

Synonyms

In the sense of hermit

• anchorite

• eremite

• recluse

• See also recluse

Anagrams

• mither

Source: Wiktionary

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Her"mit, n. Etym: [OE. ermite, eremite, heremit, heremite, F. hermite, ermite, L. eremita, Gr. Eremite.]

1. A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret; especially, one who so lives from religious motives. He had been Duke of Savoy, and after a very glorious reign, took on him the habit of a hermit, and retired into this solitary spot. Addison.

2. A beadsman; one bound to pray for another. [Obs.] "We rest your hermits." Shak. Hermit crab (Zoöl.), a marine decapod crustacean of the family Paguridæ. The species are numerous, and belong to many genera. Called also soldier crab. The hermit crabs usually occupy the dead shells of various univalve mollusks. See Illust. of Commensal.

– Hermit thrush (Zoöl.), an American thrush (Turdus Pallasii), with retiring habits, but having a sweet song.

– Hermit warbler (Zoöl.), a California wood warbler (Dendroica occidentalis), having the head yellow, the throat black, and the back gray, with black streaks.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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