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as in hideout
a place where a person goes to hide or to avoid others the artist's desert hermitage was a small adobe house at the end of a long dusty road

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as in monastery
a residence for men under religious vows monks in that hermitage take a vow of silence

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Recent Examples of hermitage The excavation began in February 2025, in anticipation of future housing development near a modern-day hermitage, according to a statement from the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP). Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2025 The Abbey of Saint Gall, originally a hermitage south of Lake Constance, was founded by one of his companions, Saint Gall (or Gallus). Bernd Roeck june 16, Literary Hub, 16 June 2025 When Iyer’s wife accompanies him on a visit to the hermitage, the monks greet her warmly. Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hermitage
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Noun
  • In the late 1800s, it’s also been said that the cave was a hideout for moonshiners, thanks to its secluded location and constant temperature of 64 degrees every day of the year.
    Megan duBois, Southern Living, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Responding officers found the passageway, then found the hideout.
    Theoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 10 Oct. 2025
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  • After more or less abandoning philosophy at the end of the First World War, Ludwig trained to be an elementary-school teacher, spent time as a gardener’s assistant in a monastery, and then taught in small towns in rural Austria.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The monastery is central to the story, and its elder—named Zosima in the novel—comforts a woman who has lost her child, aged two years and nine months, with words that echo those uttered by Ambrose.
    Karl Ove Knausgaard, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The lair goes undetected for six months.
    Theoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Following a trip to Bash Steed’s villainous lair, our trio returns home, where they’re confronted by Renée Zellweger’s Camila White.
    Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 7 Oct. 2025
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  • Despite the morning chill, hundreds of pilgrims were already circling the kora, a two-mile prayer path around the cloister’s walls.
    Chris Schalkx, Travel + Leisure, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Natural light, serene cloisters and Spanish gothic architectural flourishes characterize this memorial space, which is also home to an annual music festival, held annually during the summer solstice called the Garden of Memory.
    Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • According to computer simulations, these differences appeared to help lower disease transmission, reducing the risk of the fungal pathogen breaching the entire nest.
    NPR, NPR, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The chimney sweep will identify whether your chimney requires cleaning to remove creosote build-up, animal nests, or debris.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2025

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“Hermitage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hermitage. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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