Dictionary

hermitage en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈhɜr.mə.tɪdʒ/ (General-American)
• /ˈhɜːmɪtɪd͡ʒ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
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• /ˈhɜːrmɪtɪdʒ/ (General-American)

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.

Meanings

1. A house or dwelling where a hermit lives.
   • 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 Noot for a hermitage, and, I have no doubt, for ever sealed the passage that leads to the Place of Life with some hundreds of tons of rock. 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
   • 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:
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 1849–1850, →OCLC:
3. A period of seclusion.

Forms

Deriveds

Hermitage Flat

Relateds

hermit

Synonyms

retreat

Translations (44)

scn rumitaggiu (period of seclusion) · es ermita (dwelling place of hermit) · pl pustelnia (dwelling place of hermit) · de Eremitage (dwelling place of hermit) · de Einsiedelei (place of seclusion) · pl eremitorium (dwelling place of hermit) · it eremo (dwelling place of hermit) · cmn 隱居處 /隐居处 (dwelling place of hermit) · fr ermitage (dwelling place of hermit) · eo ermitejo (dwelling place of hermit) · el αναχωρητήριο (dwelling place of hermit) · el ησυχαστήριο (place of seclusion) · de Klause (dwelling place of hermit) · pl ustronie (place of seclusion) · hu remetelak (dwelling place of hermit) · mk испосница (dwelling place of hermit) · de Einsiedelei (dwelling place of hermit) · scn rimitòriu (place of seclusion) · sk pustovňa (dwelling place of hermit) · pt eremitério (place of seclusion) · gl ermida (dwelling place of hermit) · scn rimitòriu (dwelling place of hermit) · hi आश्रम (dwelling place of hermit) · nl kluis (dwelling place of hermit) · ru эрмитаж (dwelling place of hermit) · pl samotnia (place of seclusion) · it eremitaggio (period of seclusion) · fr ermitage (place of seclusion) · el ησυχαστήριο (dwelling place of hermit) · el ερημητήριο (place of seclusion) · pl ermitaż (place of seclusion) · nl kluizenarij (dwelling place of hermit) · it isolamento (period of seclusion) · sv eremitage (dwelling place of hermit) · pl erem (dwelling place of hermit) · cs poustevna (dwelling place of hermit) · el ερημητήριο (dwelling place of hermit) · it eremo (place of seclusion) · pt eremitério (dwelling place of hermit) · sk eremitáž (dwelling place of hermit) · pl ermitaż (dwelling place of hermit) · pl odosobnienie (period of seclusion) · nl hermitage (dwelling place of hermit) · fi erakkomaja (dwelling place of hermit)