Usually means: Person who lives in solitude.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word HERMIT:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. hermit: Merriam-Webster
  2. hermit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hermit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hermit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hermit: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hermit, hermit: Wordnik
  7. hermit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hermit: Wiktionary
  9. hermit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hermit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hermit: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hermit, hermit: Dictionary.com
  13. hermit: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hermit: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hermit (album), Hermit (disambiguation), Hermit (horse), Hermit (hummingbird), Hermit, The Hermit (Il solitario), The Hermit (Tarot card), The Hermit (album), The Hermit (band), The Hermit (novel), The Hermit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hermit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hermit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hermit: Rhymezone
  19. hermit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hermit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Hermit, Hermit: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. hermit: FreeDictionary.org
  23. hermit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. hermit: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. hermit: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hermit: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hermit: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hermit: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Hermit, The Hermit: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See hermiting as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hermit)

▸ noun:  A religious recluse; someone who lives alone for religious reasons; an eremite.
▸ noun:  A recluse; someone who lives alone and shuns human companionship.
▸ noun:  A spiced cookie made with molasses, raisins, and nuts.
▸ noun:  A hermit crab.
▸ noun:  Any in the subfamily Phaethornithinae of hummingbirds.

Similar:
anchorite, troglodyte, recluse, solitarian, hikikomori, hermetist, retreatant, heretick, hermeticist, irreligionist, more...

Opposite:
socialite, extrovert, gregarious

Types:
eremitic, anchoritic, cenobitic, recluse, hermit crab, hermit thrush, more...

Phrases:
hermit crab, hermit crabs, hermit thrush, hermit kingdom, hermit thrushes, more...

Adjectives:
old, holy, good, pious, poor, young, aged, christian, solitary, certain, saintly

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Similar:
anchorite, troglodyte, recluse, solitarian, hikikomori, hermetist, retreatant, heretick, hermeticist, irreligionist, more...

Opposite:
socialite, extrovert, gregarious

Types:
eremitic, anchoritic, cenobitic, recluse, hermit crab, hermit thrush, more...

Phrases:
hermit crab, hermit crabs, hermit thrush, hermit kingdom, hermit thrushes, hermit warbler, Peter the Hermit, hermit like, Garden hermit, Caribbean hermit crab, Hermit of Mink Hollow, Ecuadorian hermit crab, more...

Adjectives:
old, holy, good, pious, poor, young, aged, christian, solitary, certain, saintly

Colors:
    beige,     olive,     brown,     taupe,     sage, more...



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