different between hermit vs anchorite

English

Alternative forms

• eremite, heremit, heremite (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English hermite, heremite, eremite, from Old French eremite, from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin eremita, from Ancient Greek ???????? (er?mít?s, “person of the desert”) from ?????? (er?mía, “desert, solitude”), from ?????? (ér?mos) or ?????? (erêmos, “uninhabited”) plus -???? (-ít?s, “one connected to, a member of”). Displaced native Old English ?nsetla.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h?m?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h??m?t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)m?t
• Hyphenation: her?mit

Noun

hermit (plural hermits)

1. A religious recluse; someone who lives alone for religious reasons; an eremite.

   Synonyms: anchorite, eremite

2. A recluse; someone who lives alone and shuns human companionship.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:recluse

3. A spiced cookie made with molasses, raisins, and nuts.
4. A hermit crab.
   • 2016, Vicki Judah, Kathy Nuttall, Exotic Animal Care and Management (page 279)

     Because hermits are decapods and do not live within their own shells, they are not considered to be true crabs.

5. A hummingbird in the subfamily Phaethornithinae.

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Translations

See also

• monachos
• monk

Anagrams

• mither

English

Alternative forms

• anachoret, anachorete, anachorite, anchoret

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (anakh?r?t?s, “anchoret”), from ???????? (anakh?ré?, “I withdraw, retire”), via Latin anchor?ta, a variant of anachor?ta (“anchorite”).

Pronunciation

Noun

anchorite (plural anchorites)

1. One who lives in isolation or seclusion, especially for religious reasons.
   • 1950, Will Durant, The Age of Faith, Simon and Schuster, page 792.

     About 1150 some Palestinian anchorites adopted the eremitical rule of St. Basil, and spread throughout Palestine; when the Moslems captured the Holy Land these "Carmelites" migrated to Cyprus, Sicily, France, and England.

   Synonyms: (obsolete) anchor, eremite, hermit, recluse

Related terms

• anchoress (feminine gender)

Translations

Further reading

• Hermit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• page in Portuguese Wikipedia
• A definition in Spanish

Anagrams

• antechoir, heatronic