hermit's cell (noun)

  • 1cell — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English, religious house and Anglo French celle hermit s cell, from Latin cella small room; akin to Latin celare to conceal more at hell Date: 12th century 1. a small religious house dependent on a… …

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  • 2monastery — noun (plural teries) Etymology: Middle English monasterie, from Late Latin monasterium, from Late Greek monastērion, from Greek, hermit s cell, from monazein to live alone, from monos single more at monk Date: 15th century a house for persons… …

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  • 3Her|mit|age — «HUR muh tihj», noun. 1. the home of a hermit: »The peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell (Milton). 2. a solitary and secluded dwelling place: »Stone walls do not a prison make Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take that… …

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  • 4her|mit|age — «HUR muh tihj», noun. 1. the home of a hermit: »The peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell (Milton). 2. a solitary and secluded dwelling place: »Stone walls do not a prison make Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take that… …

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  • 5her´mit|like´ — her|mit «HUR miht», noun. 1. a person who goes away from other people, and lives by himself; recluse. A hermit often lives a religious life. »Hermit hoar in solemn cell (Samuel Johnson). SYNONYM(S): eremite, anchorite. 2. any one of various… …

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  • 6her|mit — «HUR miht», noun. 1. a person who goes away from other people, and lives by himself; recluse. A hermit often lives a religious life. »Hermit hoar in solemn cell (Samuel Johnson). SYNONYM(S): eremite, anchorite. 2. any one of various animals of… …

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  • 7Iceland — Infobox Country native name = Lýðveldið Ísland conventional long name = Republic of Iceland common name = Iceland map caption = Location of Iceland (red) in Europe (white) national motto = national anthem = Lofsöngur official languages =… …

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  • 8Gnommish — is the fairy language used in the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer. It is not actually a language at all, but the English language encoded into a letter substitution cipher where each symbol represents a letter. Lines of translatable Gnommish… …

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  • 9seclusion — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Shutting away Nouns 1. seclusion, privacy; retirement; reclusion, recess; rustication, rus in urbe; solitude; solitariness, isolation; loneness, withdrawal, hermitism, ermitism, anchoritism, voluntary… …

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