1. (in the past) a religious person who lived alone and avoided other people
   Word Originlate Middle English: from medieval Latin anchorita (ecclesiastical Latin anchoreta), from ecclesiastical Greek anakhōrÄ“tÄ“s, from anakhōrein ‘retire’, from ana- ‘back’ + khōra, khōr- ‘a place’.

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