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hermitage

Syllables: her·mit·age/ˈhɜːmɪtɪd͡ʒ/US/ˈhɜr.mə.tɪdʒ/

hermitage noun: a house or dwelling where a hermit lives.

Noun (1)

hermitage (plural hermitages)

  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?1624, John Donne, “13. Prayer”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, page 329
    • I saw the huge rocking-stone, that had been violently depressed by him as he sprang, fly back when relieved of his weight till, for the first time during all these centuries, it got beyond its balance, fell with a most awful crash right into the rocky chamber which had once served the philosopher...1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
  2. A place of seclusion.
    • Temptation is an obsequious servant that has no objection to the country, and we know that it takes up its lodging in hermitages as well as in cities; and that in the most remote and inaccessible desert it keeps company with the fugitive solitary.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 28, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published...
  3. A period of seclusion.

Proper noun capitalized: Hermitage

Hermitage

  1. A village and civil parish in West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU5073).
  2. A small village and civil parish (served by High Stoy (Group) Parish Council) in Dorset, England, previously in West Dorset district (OS grid ref ST6407).
  3. A village in Southbourne parish, Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU7505).
  4. A small village in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NY5095).
  5. A small city in Bradley County, Arkansas.
  6. A former settlement in Mendocino County, California.
  7. A former community in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana.
  8. A small city, the county seat of Hickory County, Missouri.
  9. A city in Mercer County, Pennsylvania.
  10. A neighbourhood of Nashville, Tennessee.
  11. A settlement in Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands.
  12. A locality in Saint John, United States Virgin Islands.
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  1. A town on Carriacou, Grenada.
  2. A neighbourhood in north-east Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
  3. A locality in Central Highlands Council, central Tasmania, Australia.

Noun (2) capitalized: Hermitage

Hermitage (uncountable)

  1. 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.1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 185
    • 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;...1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 1

hermitage meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

hermitage in Hindi

dwelling place of hermit
आश्रम āśram

hermitage in Marathi

hermitage, ashram
आश्रम āśram

hermitage in Urdu

گوشا عجلت, حجرہ, خانقاہ, کٹی, مٹھ, تکیہ

hermitage in Bengali

hermitage
আশ্রম asrom
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hermitage in Malayalam
ആശ്രമം, കോഷ്ഠം, സന്ന്യാസാശ്രമം, പർണ്ണകുടി
hermitage in Kannada
ಯತಿಗಳ ಆಶ್ರಮ, ಸಂನ್ಯಾಸಿಯ ಕುಟೀರ, ಏಕಾಂತ ವಾಸಸ್ಥಳ
hermitage in Odia
ଅୟନ ayana
hermitage in Sanskrit
आश्रम āśrama, अरण्यायतन araṇyāyatana

Synonyms of hermitage

Forms of hermitage

pluralhermitages

Plural of hermitage: hermitages

Origin of hermitage

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.

Words formed from hermitage

Questions about hermitage

What does hermitage mean?
Hermitage means a house or dwelling where a hermit lives.
What is hermitage in Hindi?
Hermitage in Hindi is आश्रम (āśram). See Hermitage meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is hermitage?
Hermitage can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce hermitage?
Hermitage is pronounced /ˈhɜːmɪtɪd͡ʒ/ (UK).
What is the plural of hermitage?
The plural of hermitage is hermitages.

Words near hermitage in the dictionary

  1. hermit warbler
  2. hermit warblers
  3. hermit-bird
  4. hermit-crow
  5. hermit-like
  6. hermitage
  7. Hermitage Flat
  8. Hermitage Water
  9. Hermitage-Sandyville
  10. hermitages
  11. hermitaries

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hermitage (page history and authors); Hermitage (page history and authors); आश्रम (Marathi) (page history and authors); hermitage (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); আশ্রম (Bengali) (page history and authors); hermitage (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); hermitage (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ଅୟନ (Odia) (page history and authors); अरण्यायतन (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). 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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