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Hermit synonyms
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hieronymite
A member of any of various mediaeval congregations of hermits named after St. Jerome.
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  1. A member of any of various mediaeval congregations of hermits named after St. Jerome.
ascetic
One who is devoted to the practice of self-denial, either through seclusion or stringent abstinence.
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  1. One who is devoted to the practice of self-denial, either through seclusion or stringent abstinence.
  2. Anyone who lives with strict self-discipline and without the usual pleasures and comforts
  3. A person who leads a life of contemplation and rigorous self-denial for religious purposes
anchorite
A person who has retired into seclusion for religious reasons.
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  1. A person who has retired into seclusion for religious reasons.
cenobite
A member of a religious order living in a monastery or convent
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  1. A member of a religious order living in a monastery or convent
solitary
One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchoret, hermit or recluse.
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  1. One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchoret, hermit or recluse.
  2. A person who lives alone; a recluse.
  3. Solitary confinement.
recluse
A person who withdraws from the world to live in seclusion and often in solitude.
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  1. A person who withdraws from the world to live in seclusion and often in solitude.
  2. A person who lives a secluded, solitary life
eremite
A religious recluse; hermit
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  1. A religious recluse; hermit
  2. A recluse or hermit, especially a religious recluse.
stylite
Any of various Christian ascetics who lived on the tops of pillars
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  1. Any of various Christian ascetics who lived on the tops of pillars
  2. One of a number of early Christian ascetics who lived unsheltered on the tops of high pillars.
marabout
A Muslim hermit or saint, especially in northern Africa.
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  1. A Muslim hermit or saint, especially in northern Africa.
  2. A Muslim hermit or holy man, esp. among the Berbers and Moors
  3. The tomb or shrine of such a man
solitarian
(Obsolete) A hermit; one who is solitary.
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  1. (Obsolete) A hermit; one who is solitary.
pillarist
(Historical, Christianity) A stylite.
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  1. (Historical, Christianity) A stylite.
anchoress
A female anchorite
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  1. A female anchorite
  2. A female anchorite. A woman who chooses to withdraw from the world to live a solitary life of prayer and contemplation.
  3. A woman who has retired into seclusion for religious reasons.
Find another word for hermit. In this page you can discover 19 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for hermit, like: holy man, hieronymite, hermitress, ascetic, anchorite, cenobite, solitary, recluse, eremite, santon and stylite.

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  • What else does the hermit want for his $100 a week?

  • The town derives its name from a hermit who lived here in the 7th and 8th centuries.

  • You are talking about the guy everyone in town calls the hermit - Russell Cade.

  • In 1095 Peter the Hermit preached the first crusade there.

  • The basis of this growth is partly the story-telling instinct innate in all men, which loves to heighten an effect, sharpen a point or increase a contrast - the instinct which breathes in Icelandic sagas like that of Burnt Njal; partly the instinct of idolization, if it may be so called, which leads to the perversion into impossible greatness of an approved character, and has created, in this instance, the legendary figures of Peter the Hermit and Godfrey of Bouillon (qq.v.); partly the religious impulse, which counted nothing wonderful in a holy war, and imported miraculous elements even into the sober pages of the Gesta.

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