hermitage
pronunciation
How to pronounce hermitage in British English:
UK [ˈhɜ:mɪtɪdʒ]
How to pronounce hermitage in American English:
US [ˈhɜrmɪtɪdʒ]
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- Noun:
- the abode of a hermit
Word Origin
- hermitage (n.)
- 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.
Example
- 1. He lived in a hermitage when he was old .
- 2. That is what going back to your hermitage means .
- 3. E day I decided to go to the beautiful woods near my hermitage , the place where I live .
- 4. That morning , before leaving the hermitage , I had opened all my windows and doors to the sun to dry things out .
- 5. I used to have a hermitage , myself , once .