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 →

2) Someone who hardly ever goes out or meets people is sometimes jokingly called a hermit. tree →

3) A hermit crab is a crab that lives inside an empty shell of another sea animal. tree →

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 →
• Long ago, some Christians became hermits to pray in the desert. tree →
• A hermit crab looks for a bigger shell when it grows. tree →
• Since he started his game, my brother has been a hermit in his room. tree →
• In the story, the children met a wise hermit in the forest. tree →
• The hermit grew vegetables and rarely spoke to anyone. tree →
• “I cannot say,” answered the hermit. tree →

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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hermit» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.