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Hermitage

//ˈhɜːmɪtɪd͡ʒ// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A place in the United Kingdom:; A village and civil parish in West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU5073).
  2. 2
    A place in the United Kingdom:; 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. 3
    A place in the United Kingdom:; A village in Southbourne parish, Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU7505).
  4. 4
    A place in the United Kingdom:; A small village in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NY5095).
  5. 5
    A place in the United States:; A small city in Bradley County, Arkansas.
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  1. 6
    A place in the United States:; A former settlement in Mendocino County, California.
  2. 7
    A place in the United States:; A former community in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana.
  3. 8
    A place in the United States:; A small city, the county seat of Hickory County, Missouri.
  4. 9
    A place in the United States:; A city in Mercer County, Pennsylvania.
  5. 10
    A place in the United States:; A neighbourhood of Nashville, Tennessee.
  6. 11
    A settlement in Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands.
  7. 12
    A locality in Saint John, United States Virgin Islands.
  8. 13
    A town on Carriacou, Grenada.
  9. 14
    A neighbourhood in north-east Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
  10. 15
    A locality in Central Highlands Council, central Tasmania, Australia.
Noun
  1. 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?"

  2. 2
    A wine produced near Valence, Drôme. uncountable

    "Here a real supper was elegantly served […] with choice wines, particularly white hermitage, which I never before had tasted."

  3. 3
    the abode of a hermit wordnet
  4. 4
    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."

  5. 5
    A period of seclusion.

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.

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