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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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Recent Examples of hermitage
When Iyer’s wife accompanies him on a visit to the hermitage, the monks greet her warmly.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hermitage
Noun
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Up until the al-Qaeda forces discover their hideout, the action is contained to mundane activities: confirming operations, tracking other platoons’ movements.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
7 May 2025
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Based on a true story, a father and son in a warzone hospital face life-or-death choices as their hideout becomes increasingly compromised.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
29 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The monastery coincidentally served as a French abbey’s outpost amid increasing tensions between France and England in the years leading up to the Hundred Years’ War.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
6 June 2025
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Nestled in the mountains, this beautiful monastery is an architectural treasure.—
Carlsen Jes,
Travel + Leisure,
1 June 2025
Noun
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Fitting for an actor, the house hides a cinematic lair.—
Spencer Elliott,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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Kelly scooped at the firm snow, tiny icicles swaying from his white mustache, but couldn’t find a lair.—
Alec Luhn,
Scientific American,
20 May 2025
Noun
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With stone walls, vaulted ceilings, and Renaissance cloister, Parador is a prime example of Gothic architecture.—
Carlsen Jes,
Travel + Leisure,
1 June 2025
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The latter was particularly restorative, as was the Negroni No. 2 at Le Bar, in the cloister, which adds beets and strawberries to the classic recipe.—
Travel + Leisure Editors,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Poets toil as often-anonymous individuals building some greater nest, colony, or hive that might outlast us or end up squashed and swept away unceremoniously.—
Hannah Brooks-Motl
June 2,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2025
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Video showed that, as the eaglet took off at 10:46 a.m., Gizmo’s head swiveled, monitoring as Sunny fledged, or made an inaugural flight from the nest.—
Summer Lin,
Los Angeles Times,
2 June 2025
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“Hermitage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hermitage. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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