hermit
sustantivoatestiguado en diálogos
- Reino Unido//ˈhɜːmɪt//
- Estados Unidos//ˈhɝmɪt//
A religious recluse; someone who lives alone for religious reasons; an eremite.
sustantivo
- 1
A religious recluse; someone who lives alone for religious reasons; an eremite.
- 2
A recluse; someone who lives alone and shuns human companionship.
Solitary the thrush, / The hermit withdrawn to himself, avoiding the settlements, / Sings by himself a song.
Millie told him he sounded like some batty hermit who lived in a cave.
- 3
A spiced cookie made with molasses, raisins, and nuts.
- 4
A hermit crab.
Because hermits are decapods and do not live within their own shells, they are not considered to be true crabs.
- 5
Any in the subfamily Phaethornithinae of hummingbirds.
Etimología
From Middle English hermite, heremite, eremite, from Old French eremite, from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin eremita, from Ancient Greek ἐρημίτης (erēmítēs, “person of the desert”) from ἐρημία (erēmía, “desert, solitude”), from ἔρημος (érēmos) or ἐρῆμος (erêmos, “uninhabited”) plus -ίτης (-ítēs, “one connected to, a member of”). Doublet of eremite. Displaced native Old English ānsetla.
Formas
- plural
- hermits
hermit · A religious recluse; someone who lives alone for religious reasons; an eremite.
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