'Hermit' definitions:
Definition of 'hermit'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Hermit'
From: GCIDE
- Hermit \Her"mit\, n. [OE. ermite, eremite, heremit, heremite, F. hermite, ermite, L. eremita, Gr. ?, fr. ? lonely, solitary. Cf. Eremite.]
- 1. A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret; especially, one who so lives from religious motives. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A beadsman; one bound to pray for another. [Obs.] "We rest your hermits." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Cookery) A spiced molasses cookie, often containing chopped raisins and nuts. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- Hermit crab (Zool.), a marine decapod crustacean of the family Pagurid[ae]. 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 (Zool.), an American thrush ({Turdus Pallasii}), with retiring habits, but having a sweet song.
- Hermit warbler (Zool.), a California wood warbler (Dendroica occidentalis), having the head yellow, the throat black, and the back gray, with black streaks. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'hermit'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abbacomes,
- abbot,
- abstainer,
- Albigensian,
- alien,
- anchoress,
- anchoret,
- anchorite,
- ascetic,
- beadsman,
- bedridden invalid,
- bhikshu,
- brother,
- caloyer,
- case,
- Catharist,
- celibate,
- cenobite,
- character,
- cloistered monk,
- closet cynic,
- conventual,
- conventual prior,
- crackpot,
- crank,
- dervish,
- desert fathers,
- desert saints,
- Diogenes,
- eccentric,
- eremite,
- fakir,
- fanatic,
- flagellant,
- Franciscan,
- friar,
- grand prior,
- hermitess,
- hieromonach,
- Hieronymian,
- Hieronymite,
- 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,
- Sabbatarian,
- sannyasi,
- screwball,
- seclusionist,
- shut-in,
- solitaire,
- solitary,
- solitudinarian,
- stay-at-home,
- stylite,
- Timon of Athens,
- tramp,
- Trappist,
- type,
- Waldensian,
- yogi,
- yogin,
- zealot