Hermitage

See also: hermitage

English

Proper noun

Hermitage

1. A village and civil parish in West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU5073).
2. A hamlet in Dorset, England, previously in West Dorset district (OS grid ref ST6407).
3. A village in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NY5095).
4. A small city in Bradley County, Arkansas, United States.
5. A former settlement in Mendocino County, California, United States.
6. A former community in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States.
7. A small city, the county seat of Hickory County, Missouri, United States.
8. A city in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, United States.
9. A neighbourhood of Nashville, Tennessee, United States.
10. A settlement in Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands.

Noun

Hermitage (uncountable)

1. A wine produced near Valence, Drôme.
   • 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 185:

     Here a real supper was elegantly served […] with choice wines, particularly white hermitage, which I never before had tasted.

   • 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 1:

     You will do very well, my lady, very well indeed. I will send you in a couple of dozen of capital sherry, fit for the dons, and some hermitage, by no means to be sneezed at;...