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Grammar : Noun
Spell : hur-mi-tij or for 3, er-mi-tahzh
Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɜr mɪ tɪdʒ or for 3, ˌɛr mɪˈtɑʒ



Définition of hermitage

Origin :
  • late 13c., "dwelling place of a hermit," from Old French hermitage, from Latin heremite (see hermit). Earlier in the same sense was hermitorie (c.1200), from Medieval Latin hermitorium. Transferred sense of "solitary or secluded dwelling place" is from 1640s.
  • noun hideaway
Example sentences :
  • At the Tambov hermitage the anchorite Hilary, a man of saintly life, has died.
  • Extract from : « Father Sergius » by Leo Tolstoy
  • Why not go to the Hermitage since my push-cart income permits of it?
  • Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani
  • The other day, one 222 who visited the Hermitage, spoke to me of you, O Khalid.
  • Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani
  • Rather let us to the Hermitage, Reader, and with an honest heart; in earnest, not in sport.
  • Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani
  • It was a charming refuge—a hermitage in the midst of a crowd.
  • Extract from : « His Masterpiece » by Emile Zola
  • Let us now return to the Hermitage, and the quiet lives of those who dwelt there.
  • Extract from : « Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) » by Charles James Lever
  • The Hermitage that night proved a fitting field for her generalship.
  • Extract from : « The Genius » by Margaret Horton Potter
  • And when he had come to the hermitage, you may be sure he had good cheer.
  • Extract from : « Stories of King Arthur and His Knights » by U. Waldo Cutler
  • And on a day it befell him that he was benighted in a hermitage.
  • Extract from : « Stories of King Arthur and His Knights » by U. Waldo Cutler
  • And I long to see once more my favourite haunt, the Hermitage of Braid.
  • Extract from : « Olive » by Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)

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