anchoritenoun [ C ]
uk/ˈæŋ.kər.aɪt/us/ˈæŋ.kɚ.aɪt/someone who lives alone and away from other people for religious reasons
Synonym
hermit
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Religious people: monks & nuns
- abbess
- abbey
- abbot
- ascetic
- benedictine
- convent
- Franciscan
- friar
- friary
- habit
- hermit
- lay brother/sister
- monk
- mother
- novice
- nun
- nunnery
- sister
- Trappist monk
- veil
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Examples from literature
- Hitherto he had chosen to live the life of an anchorite, and had abjured the society of women.
- The anchorites secluded themselves in hermitages.
- The church itself was frequently the habitation of the anchorite.
- They, too, constructed cells, like ancient anchorites, and cultivated the fields for bread.
- What can an immured anchorite know of the vast mysteries of the wind-borne spirits?
- You live like an anchorite.