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EREMITE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does eremite mean?
• EREMITE (noun)
The noun EREMITE has 1 sense:
1. a Christian recluse
Familiarity information: EREMITE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Christian recluse
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("eremite" is a kind of...):
religious (a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "eremite"):
anchorite; hermit (one retired from society for religious reasons)
Antonym:
cenobite (a member of a religious order living in common)
Derivation:
eremitic (characterized by ascetic solitude)
eremitic (of or relating to or befitting eremites or their practices of hermitic living)
eremitical (characterized by ascetic solitude)
eremitical (of or relating to or befitting eremites or their practices of hermitic living)
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