Other forms: hermitages
A hermitage is the dwelling of somebody who lives apart from the world. A mountain hermitage, retire to a hermitage, the old hermitage.
It is usually a single small building, and eighteenth-century landowners built ornamental ones in their grounds and occasionally paid a man to live in as a decorative hermit. The Hermitage in Saint Petersburg is one of the great museums of the world.
1nounhermitageThe dwelling of somebody who lives apart from the world.
“The monk lived alone in a tiny hermitage high up in the mountains.”
hermitage is a dwelling.
Old French ermitage comes from hermit, from Greek eremites, one who lives in the desert.
Ancient Greek
ἐρημίτης — hermit
Latin
erēmīta
Old French
ermitage
Middle English
hermytage
English, today
hermitage
From Middle English hermytage, ermitage, from Old French ermitage, hermitaige, from Latin erēmīta, borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐρημίτης (“hermit”). by surface analysis, hermit + -age.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA