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# hermit

«hermit» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who chooses to live alone, away from other…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a hermit, hermits)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A hermit is a person who chooses to live alone, away from other people, often for religious reasons or to think and pray. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hermit/#m1)

2) Someone who hardly ever goes out or meets people is sometimes jokingly called a hermit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hermit/#m2)

3) A hermit crab is a crab that lives inside an empty shell of another sea animal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hermit/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In church and history lessons, hermits were monks or holy people who lived alone in caves, deserts or huts to pray; Christians remember early hermits in the Egyptian desert. In science lessons, the hermit crab moves into bigger shells as it grows. In stories, a hermit is often a mysterious old person in the woods. Phrases: «live like a hermit», «hermit crab», «become a hermit».

### examples

- The hermit lived alone in a cave on the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hermit/#x1)
- Long ago, some Christians became hermits to pray in the desert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hermit/#x2)
- A hermit crab looks for a bigger shell when it grows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hermit/#x3)
- Since he started his game, my brother has been a hermit in his room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hermit/#x4)
- In the story, the children met a wise hermit in the forest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hermit/#x5)
- The hermit grew vegetables and rarely spoke to anyone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hermit/#x6)
- “I cannot say,” answered the hermit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hermit/#x7)

### note

Plural: «hermits». Adjective: «hermit-like». A hermit crab's shell is borrowed; it does not grow its own. Calling a person a hermit as a joke is not unkind, but it can be about real loneliness.

### In the corpora

- [Picture a beach where hermit crabs line up by size beside one big empty shell.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hermit» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hermit/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.