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hermitage

noun
/ˈhɜːmɪtɪd͡ʒ/UK/ˈhɜr.mə.tɪdʒ/US

Etymology

From Middle English hermytage, ermitage, from Old French ermitage, hermitaige, from Latin erēmīta, borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐρημίτης (erēmítēs, “hermit”). By surface analysis, hermit + -age.

  1. derived from ἐρημίτης
  2. derived from erēmīta
  3. derived from ermitage
  4. inherited from hermytage

Definitions

  1. A house or dwelling where a hermit lives.

    • But vvhat a vvretched, and diſconſolate Hermitage is that Houſe, vvhich is not viſited by thee [God], and vvhat a VVayue, and Stray is that Man, that hath not thy Markes vpon him?

  2. A place of seclusion.

  3. A period of seclusion.

  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. A place in the United Kingdom

      A place in the United Kingdom:

    2. A place in the United States

      A place in the United States:

    3. A settlement in Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands.

    4. A locality in Saint John, United States Virgin Islands.

    5. A town on Carriacou, Grenada.

    6. A neighbourhood in north-east Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

    7. A locality in Central Highlands Council, central Tasmania, Australia.

    8. A wine produced near Valence, Drôme.

      • Here a real supper was elegantly served […] with choice wines, particularly white hermitage, which I never before had tasted.
      • You will do very well, my lady, very well indeed. I will send you in a couple of dozen of capital sherry, fit for the dons, and some hermitage, by no means to be sneezed at;...

The neighborhood

Derived

Hermitage Flat, Hermitage Water

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA