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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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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 When Iyer’s wife accompanies him on a visit to the hermitage, the monks greet her warmly. Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2025 Aflame, by Pico Iyer Travel writer and spiritual thinker Pico Iyer has spent time at a Benedictine hermitage in California, a seemingly idyllic setting. Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2025 An excavation in Lincolnshire revealed what appears to be a sacred site Archaeologists digging through a field in Lincolnshire, England, may have found a 1,300-year-old hermitage on the site of a much more ancient henge. Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 8 Apr. 2024 The hermitage was his summer hideaway, a place for monthslong vacations with family and friends. Aimee Farrell, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for hermitage
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Noun
  • Fun fact: Lazlo's steam tunnel hideout, accessible through Mitch's closet, is an elaborate homage to Leonardo da Vinci.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 2 Apr. 2025
  • From $163 per night. BOOK NOW Perks: Patio, on-site washer and dryer, sound system, crib, Wi-Fi Quetzalcoatl’s Nest isn’t the hideout of the eponymous Aztec god, but a jaw-dropping complex of apartments in a private park 15 miles outside Mexico City.
    Tim Nelson, Architectural Digest, 31 Mar. 2025
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  • This growing network of trails goes through rhododendron forests and past monasteries and villages, giving travelers a closer look at places only accessible on foot.
    Mary Holland, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2025
  • In a pivotal scene in the season finale, Piper comes to the realization that her plan to stay at a monastery for a year and study Buddhism isn't going to work.
    Ralphie Aversa, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2025
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  • The latter here is represented via a large puppet created by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, and the walk-through experience will take us from taverns to the back alley of a marketplace to the beholder’s lair.
    Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Perhaps by taking the critter back to its lair at the heart of the island, the girl will be able to reconcile the comforts of home with the call of the wild.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 26 Jan. 2025
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  • When the breeze flows through the cloisters, the kites float, showing off their gravity-defying nature.
    Diana Budds, Architectural Digest, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The cloister houses an herbalist doling out tisanes and tinctures and a boulangerie producing sourdough loaves from flour milled on-site.
    Jennifer Flowers, AFAR Media, 3 Apr. 2025
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  • Paper Wasp nests resemble the shape of an upside-down umbrella.
    Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Earlier this year, viewers worldwide tuned in to watch bald eagle eggs hatch on a Big Bear live nest cam.
    Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025

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“Hermitage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hermitage. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.

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