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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 recluseplay

  Familiarity information: EREMITE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EREMITE (noun)


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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