Synonyms:
hermit, recluse, solitary, solitudinarian, troglodyte
Meaning: one who lives in solitude
Synonyms:
anchorite, hermit
Meaning: one retired from society for religious reasons
Usage examples
"Soon the rest return from that little trip to the hermit's; then we shall see.
For several days he flew around hoping to catch sight of Zelie, and at last, seated by a hermit, outside a cave, he found her.
"I myself had the tale spread that the hermit possessed a store of gold, knowing that would draw your scum as carrion draws vultures.
Alas, said Balin, it is not the first despite he hath done me; and there the hermit and Balin buried the knight under a rich stone and a tomb royal.
For days and nights I have watched the hut, and tonight, when I saw your villains coming, I warned the hermit, and together we went among the trees back of the hut.
Then he departed from the cross on foot into a forest; and so by prime he came to an high hill, and found an hermitage and a hermit therein which was going unto mass.
"Then the world turned red--the hut went up in a roar and a red rain flooded the valley--through it I saw--the hermit and a tall man clad all in black--coming from the trees--"
I am not living in a talking, babbling world, nor yet among people who are trying to worm facts out of me; you needn't look so frightened because you have let the cat out of the bag to a faithful old hermit like me.
I am unwilling to oppose my opinion to that of your Ladyship; nor, indeed, can I, but by arguments which I believe will rather rank me as a hermit ignorant of the world, and fit only for my cell, than as a proper guardian, in an age such as this, for an accomplished young woman.