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anchorite

/ˈæŋ.kə(ˌ)ɹaɪt/

anchorite noun: one who lives in isolation or seclusion, especially for religious reasons; hermit.

Noun

anchorite (plural anchorites)

  1. One who lives in isolation or seclusion, especially for religious reasons; hermit.
    • Oh, hang him? He's a very Anchorite—a young Hermit!1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, IV.iii
    • The household was diminished, and its expenses curtailed. There was a very blank anchorite repast when Pen dined from home: and he himself headed the remonstrance from the kitchen regarding the deteriorated quality of the Fairoaks beer.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850...

anchorite meaning in Malayalam

anchorite in Malayalam

hermit, recluse, ascetic
സന്യാസി, മുനി, വനൗകസ്സ്, കഞ്ജരൻ, യതി, ഋഷിവര്യൻ

Examples of anchorite in a sentence

  • The dandy must be celibate, cloistral; is, indeed, but a monk with a mirror for beads and breviary—an anchorite, mortifying his soul that his body may be perfect.1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson:
  • It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
  • About 1150 some Palestinian anchorites adopted the eremitical rule of St.1950, Will Durant, The Age of Faith, Simon and Schuster,, page 792:

Synonyms of anchorite

All synonyms of anchorite

Forms of anchorite

pluralanchorites
alternative formanachoret
alternative formanachorete
alternative formanachorite
alternative formanchoret

Origin of anchorite

From Ancient Greek ἀναχωρητής (anakhōrētḗs, “anchorite”), from ἀναχωρέω (anakhōréō, “to withdraw, retire”), via Latin anchōrēta, a variant of anachōrēta (“anchorite”), see -ite.

Words formed from anchorite

Questions about anchorite

What does anchorite mean?
Anchorite means one who lives in isolation or seclusion, especially for religious reasons; hermit.
What is anchorite in Malayalam?
Anchorite in Malayalam is സന്യാസി, മുനി, വനൗകസ്സ്. See Anchorite meaning in Malayalam.
How do you use anchorite in a sentence?
The dandy must be celibate, cloistral; is, indeed, but a monk with a mirror for beads and breviary—an anchorite, mortifying his soul that his body may be perfect.
What part of speech is anchorite?
Anchorite is a noun.
How do you pronounce anchorite?
Anchorite is pronounced /ˈæŋ.kə(ˌ)ɹaɪt/.
What is the plural of anchorite?
The plural of anchorite is anchorites.

Words near anchorite in the dictionary

  1. anchorins
  2. anchorism
  3. anchorisms
  4. anchorist
  5. anchorists
  6. anchorite
  7. anchorites
  8. anchoritess
  9. anchoritesses
  10. anchoritic
  11. anchoritically

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anchorite (page history and authors); anchorite (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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