hermitage

noun

ˈhər-mə-tij How to pronounce hermitage (audio)
Definition of hermitagenext
1
as in hideout
a place where a person goes to hide or to avoid others the artist's desert hermitage was a small adobe house at the end of a long dusty road

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2
as in monastery
a residence for men under religious vows monks in that hermitage take a vow of silence

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Recent Examples of hermitage That is, until Nile moves in next door, disrupting Aggie’s upstate New York hermitage. — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 13 Nov. 2025 The excavation began in February 2025, in anticipation of future housing development near a modern-day hermitage, according to a statement from the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP). — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2025 The Abbey of Saint Gall, originally a hermitage south of Lake Constance, was founded by one of his companions, Saint Gall (or Gallus). — Bernd Roeck june 16, Literary Hub, 16 June 2025 Color options include black, dreamy pink, tourmaline, buttercup yellow, hermitage, and latte white. — Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for hermitage
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hermitage
  1. hideout
  2. monastery
  3. lair
  4. cloister
  5. nest
Noun
  • Mod Periscope The perfect tool to peek out of secret hideouts—and infinitely customizable!
    — Jodi Levine, Parents, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Others recounted people falling sick, being beaten by the rain, and told to hide whenever Nigerian military helicopters flew over the forest hideouts where the captors held them.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of hideout
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  • Nway Oo said that 14 people, including three women, were killed and 20 others were wounded when a fighter jet dropped a bomb in the compound of the village’s monastery.
    — Grant Peck, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Rooms The style is monastery chic with the recent restyling raising the stakes considerably adding a new sense of design that was absent before.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of monastery
Noun
  • Inside, Project Bond would certainly make a fine lair for any Boon villain.
    — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Eriro Ehrwalder Alm, Austria Eriro is an outlier, a luxury lair that emphasizes privacy, quiet, and remoteness.
    — Everett Potter, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of lair
Noun
  • On its edge is the Romanesque church of Pieve di San Leolino, which features a 16th-century cloister and valley views.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Aug. 2026
  • The town served as a Genoese naval outpost during the medieval rivalry with Pisa, and the hotel’s arched colonnades of the original cloister still stand atop rooms that face Palmaria Island or the Gulf itself.
    — Jason Phillips, USA Today, 22 July 2026
Definition of cloister
Noun
  • Bald eagles are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, so killing, selling or otherwise harming eagles, their nests or eggs is strictly prohibited.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The organization highlighted careful monitoring, carried out with the farmers whose land the birds nested on, which allowed the nests to be fenced off from ground predators like foxes.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 25 Aug. 2026
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