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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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Recent Examples of hermitage
The hermitage was his summer hideaway, a place for monthslong vacations with family and friends.
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Aimee Farrell, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
Neither Stukeley’s hermitage nor Queen Caroline’s boasted a hermit-in-residence.
—Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 26 July 2023
According to Campbell, garden hermitages originated in southern Europe, likely during the Italian Renaissance.
—Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2023
While medieval hermitages were used chiefly for religious purposes, English garden hermitages were decorative (a type of architecture known as garden follies), incorporating natural elements like tree roots or drawing inspiration from rustic, pastoral designs.
—Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2023
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Aimee Farrell, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
Neither Stukeley’s hermitage nor Queen Caroline’s boasted a hermit-in-residence.
—Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 26 July 2023
According to Campbell, garden hermitages originated in southern Europe, likely during the Italian Renaissance.
—Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2023
While medieval hermitages were used chiefly for religious purposes, English garden hermitages were decorative (a type of architecture known as garden follies), incorporating natural elements like tree roots or drawing inspiration from rustic, pastoral designs.
—Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hermitage
Noun
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Eventually, Ben stumbled upon a small cave — presumably the very hideout where Javi sought refuge after the terrifying Doomcoming hunt.—
Michaela Zee,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2025
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The hideout's back room, behind the red velvet curtain, was the center of the party circuit this weekend in New Orleans.—
Skyler Caruso,
People.com,
11 Feb. 2025
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Allied forces have taken Sicily and begun the treacherous push up Italy’s boot, but the advance has stalled near the Abbey of Monte Cassino, a historic monastery planted atop a rocky hill in the Apennine Mountains.—
Catherine Musemeche,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 Feb. 2025
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Constructed initially just outside of Madrid in 1141, this monastery was occupied by Cistercian monks for almost 700 years before becoming storage and stables during the social revolution of the 1800s.—
Kelsey Glennon,
Southern Living,
12 Jan. 2025
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But the team hypothesizes the fungus lures the spiders out of their lairs where they are exposed to circulating air currents, which helps spread its spores, said Araújo, who is also an honorary research associate at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the United Kingdom.—
Taylor Nicioli,
CNN,
14 Feb. 2025
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The story sounds like something right out of a horror movie: this fungus hacks the brain of its host, driving the normally shy spiders out of their lairs and webs to an exposed surface.—
Michael Irving,
New Atlas,
2 Feb. 2025
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The wide open space of the glorious Sistine Chapel, wonderful ornate cloisters and marble staircases needed a flip side to them.—
Bill Desowitz,
IndieWire,
17 Feb. 2025
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Christian intellectuals increasingly accepted input from classical and contemporary non-Christian sources, particularly in emerging urban schools, which were beginning to replace monastic cloisters as centers of learning in Europe.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Nov. 2024
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Turtles likely remember magnetic conditioning for a much longer duration, Goforth noted, since most loggerheads leave their nesting beach as hatchlings and return around 20 years later to lay their first nest.—
Julianna Bragg,
CNN,
12 Feb. 2025
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His son, John, 18, and daughter, Elizabeth, quickly returned to the nest.—
Mara Bovsun,
New York Daily News,
9 Feb. 2025
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“Hermitage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hermitage. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.
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