Definitions for anchoret

anchoret an·cho·ret

Spelling: [ang-ker-it, -kuh-ret]
IPA: /ˈæŋ kər ɪt, -kəˌrɛt/

Anchoret is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 507 anagrams from letters in anchoret (acehnort).

Definitions for anchoret

noun

  1. anchorite.

Origin of anchoret

1735-45; variant of anchorite, with final vowel directly reflecting Late Latin or Late Greek spelling

Examples for anchoret

Ammona lived with three thousand brethren in such silence as though he was an anchoret.

No anchoret, indeed, could claim for himself much more apathy towards all such allurements than he did at that period.

His plump cheeks, no less than his well-filled waistcoat, showed that the Rev. Mr. Rimmon was no anchoret.

He was at this time evidently leading the life of an anchoret.

But at Monkbarns, no anchoret could have made a more simple and scanty meal.

For it stood on the transcantine side, an anchoret in itself, severed by the river from the rest of the University.

Arsenius was a noble Roman who, at the end of the fourth century, retired to Egypt to live the life of an anchoret in the desert.

The ground floor served as drawing-room; above it was the anchoret's bedroom; and the top story was used as a study.

Word Value for anchoret
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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