hermits

Meaning of hermits

plural noun
  1. a person living in solitude as a religious discipline.
  2. a hummingbird found in the shady lower layers of tropical forests, foraging along a regular route.

Middle English: from Old French hermite, from late Latin eremita, from Greek erēmitēs, from erēmos ‘solitary’.

Information about hermits

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of hermits is: hermit.
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Hyphenation of hermits

her-mits

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • hermits is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

hermits synonyms

Meaning a person who lives a solitary life and tends to avoid other people:

recluse

Meaning a recluse or hermit:

solitary

Meaning a person that prefers not to associate with others:

loner

Meaning a person who follows an ascetic life:

ascetic

Meaning a religious recluse:

anchorite

Meaning a female anchorite:

anchoress

Meaning a Christian hermit or recluse:

eremite

Meaning an ascetic living on top of a pillar, especially in ancient or medieval Syria, Turkey, and Greece in the 5th century AD:

stylite

Meaning (in the past) an ascetic who lived on top of a pillar:

pillarist

Meaning a person who lives a solitary life; a recluse:

solitudinarian

Anagrams of hermits

mithers, Rhemist, smither

Words that rhyme with hermits

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