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Definition: Anchorite |
AnchoriteNoun1. One retired from society for religious reasons. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "anchorite" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonym: AnchoriteSynonym: hermit (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Asceticism | Ascetic; anchoret, anchorite; martyr; Heautontimorumenos; hermit; (recluse); puritan, sabbatarian, cynic, sanyasi, yogi. |
Seclusion Exclusion | Recluse, hermit, eremite, cenobite; anchoret, anchorite; Simon Stylites; troglodyte, Timon of Athens, Santon, solitaire, ruralist, disciple of Zimmermann, closet cynic, Diogenes; outcast, Pariah, castaway, pilgarlic; wastrel, foundling, wilding. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Anchorite |
| English words defined with "anchorite": Anchoret. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "anchorite": Coenobite ♦ Sacred Isle. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | COENOBITE, n. A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness; and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples. O Coenobite, O coenobite, Monastical gregarian, You differ from the anchorite, That solitudinarian: With vollied prayers you wound Old Nick; With dropping shots he makes him sick. Quincy Giles |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Anchorite" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Anchorite" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
anchorite | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "anchorite"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | oshënar (hermit, recluse), heremit. (various references) | |
Arabic | ناسك (fakir, hermit, monk), زاهد (apathetic, ascetic, mystic, temperate). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | саможивец (anchoret, loner), отшелник (anchoret, eremite, hermit, recluse, solitary, troglodyte), пустинник (anchoret, hermit). (various references) | |
Czech | poustevník (eremite, hermit, recluse). (various references) | |
French | anachorète (anchoress). (various references) | |
German | eremit (hermit), Einsiedler (hermit, recluse). (various references) | |
Greek | ασκητής (hermit), αναχωρήτησ (anchoret). (various references) | |
Hebrew | נזיר (abstinent, friar, hermit, monk). (various references) | |
Hungarian | remete (recluse, solitary, hermit). (various references) | |
Italian | anacoreta (anchoress, recluse). (various references) | |
Manx | akeragh (anchoring). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anchoriteay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | anacoreta (anchoret, hermit, recluse, solitaire, solitary, troglodyte). (various references) | |
Romanian | anahoret (anachorite, anchoret, hermit), sihastru (anchoretic, hermit, recluse, recondite, retired, solitary), schimnic (eremite, hermit), pustnic (anchoret, ascetic, hermit, recluse, solitary). (various references) | |
Russian | отшельник (eremite, hermit), затворник (recluse). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pustinjak (hermit, recluse, solitary), isposnik (ascetic, eremite). (various references) | |
Spanish | anacoreta (anchoress). (various references) | |
Swedish | anakoret, eremit (hermit, recluse). (various references) | |
Turkish | yalnızlığı seven adam, toplundan kaçan adam. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | самітник (anchoret, eremite, recluse, solitaire, troglodyte), затворник (anchoret, eremite), анахорет (anchoret), пустельник (anchoret, ascetic, eremite, hermit, recluse). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người ở ẩn (anchoret, solitary), ẩn sĩ (anchoret, eremite, solitary). (various references) | |
Welsh | ancr (anchoress), meudwy (anchoret, ascetic, hermit, recluse). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | anachorein. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | solitarios, solitarius. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "anchorite": anchorites. (additional references) | |
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"Anchorite" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anachorite, Anchorlite, ankerite, ankhorite, auctoritee. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: antechoir. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-i-n-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: anchoret, anoretic, anorthic, antihero, creation, inchoate, reaction. | |
-2 letters: achiote, aconite, another, archine, carotin, ceratin, certain, chanter, chantor, chariot, chorine, cithern, cithren, cointer, creatin, enactor, erotica, hairnet, haricot, inearth, notcher, noticer, tacrine, theriac, tranche. | |
-3 letters: acetin, achier, action, aeonic, anchor, anther, aortic, archon, aroint, atoner, atonic, cahier, canter, canthi, cantor, carnet, carnie, carton, cation. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-i-n-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: achondrite, anchorites, antechoirs, antiheroic, chlorinate. | |
+2 letters: achondrites, atherogenic, chiropteran, chlorinated, chlorinates, euchromatin, neuropathic, outreaching, rhetorician. | |
+3 letters: archegoniate, chiropterans, dechlorinate, ethnographic, euchromatins, hierophantic, nephropathic, nonarchitect, outpreaching, overmatching, rhetoricians, stenographic, technocratic, theoretician, trichopteran, trochanteric, unrhetorical. | |
+4 letters: anthropogenic, archegoniates, architectonic, authenticator, chromonematic, cinematograph, containership, copartnership, dechlorinated, dechlorinates, hectographing, hydromagnetic, hyperromantic, lycanthropies, nonarchitects, nonhysterical, nontheatrical, orchestrating, orchestration, phallocentric, photoreaction, pyrotechnical, technocracies, terpsichorean, theoreticians, thermodynamic, trichopterans, unchlorinated, untheoretical. | |
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