hermit
hermit Lexical Profile
hermit Game Scores & Validity
• noun
Any person who prefers to live in seclusion or avoids social interaction with others.
"After working from home for three consecutive weeks without going out, she began to feel like a total hermit."
A person who lives in solitude, especially for religious discipline or spiritual contemplation.
"The ancient monk lived as a hermit in a small stone cave high in the mountains."
Any of various tropical and subtropical hummingbirds of the subfamily Phaethornithinae native to the Americas, typically having dull green, brown, or rufous plumage and a long, decurved bill used for feeding inside forest undergrowth.
"While hiking through the Costa Rican rainforest, the ornithologist spotted a green hermit hovering near a heliconia blossom."
North American A spiced cookie or bar cookie sweetened with molasses or brown sugar and filled with raisins and chopped nuts.
"My grandmother always baked a batch of chewy molasses hermits for the autumn harvest festival."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Old French ermite, from Late Latin eremita, and ultimately from Ancient Greek erēmitēs ('person of the desert'), derived from erēmos ('uninhabited, desert').