hermit
名词 n.
英 /ˈhɜːmɪt/
美 /ˈhɝmɪt/
英文释义
名词 n.
- A religious recluse; someone who lives alone for religious reasons; an eremite.
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A recluse; someone who lives alone and shuns human companionship.
— Solitary the thrush, / The hermit withdrawn to himself, avoiding the settlements, / Sings by himself a song.
- A spiced cookie made with molasses, raisins, and nuts.
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A hermit crab.
— Because hermits are decapods and do not live within their own shells, they are not considered to be true crabs.
- Any in the subfamily Phaethornithinae of hummingbirds.
词汇关系
衍生词
bald-headed hermit
garden hermit
hermie
hermitage
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hermit-bird
hermit crab
hermit-crow
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hermithood
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hermitude
hermit warbler
house hermit
ornamental hermit
thinstripe hermit
词源
From Middle English hermite, heremite, eremite, from Old French eremite, from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin eremita, from Ancient Greek ἐρημίτης (erēmítēs, “person of the desert”) from ἐρημία (erēmía, “desert, solitude”), from ἔρημος (érēmos) or ἐρῆμος (erêmos, “uninhabited”) plus -ίτης (-ítēs, “one connected to, a member of”). Doublet of eremite. Displaced native Old English ānsetla.
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