Usually means: Hermit dedicated to religious seclusion.
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  1. anchorite: Merriam-Webster
  2. anchorite: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. anchorite: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. anchorite: Collins English Dictionary
  5. anchorite: Vocabulary.com
  6. Anchorite, anchorite: Wordnik
  7. anchorite: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. anchorite: Wiktionary
  9. anchorite: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. anchorite (anchoret): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. anchorite: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Anchorite, anchorite: Dictionary.com
  13. anchorite: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Anchorite, The Anchorite: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Anchorite: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. anchorite: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. anchorite: Rhymezone
  18. Anchorite: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. anchorite: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. anchorite: FreeDictionary.org
  21. anchorite: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. anchorite: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. anchorite: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. anchorite: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. anchorite: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. anchorite: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ANCHORITE, ANCHORITE: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. anchorite: A Word A Day
  3. ANCHORITE: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

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Definitions from Wiktionary (anchorite)

▸ noun:  One who lives in isolation or seclusion, especially for religious reasons; hermit.

Similar:
hermit, recluse, solitarian, ascetic, monasticist, cloisterism, asceticist, isolationist, apanthropy, hikikomori, more...

Opposite:
socialite, extrovert, outgoing, gregarious

Phrases:
Immured anchorite, more...

Adjectives:
holy, old, pious, christian, young, rigid, solitary, lonely, venerable, egyptian, famous

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Similar:
hermit, recluse, solitarian, ascetic, monasticist, cloisterism, asceticist, isolationist, apanthropy, hikikomori, more...

Opposite:
socialite, extrovert, outgoing, gregarious

Phrases:
Immured anchorite, more...

Adjectives:
holy, old, pious, christian, young, rigid, solitary, lonely, venerable, egyptian, famous

Colors:
    brown,     beige,     taupe,     gray,     charcoal, more...



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