Word of the Day + 1

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6

Hermitage

[HER-mih-tij]Part of speech: noun

Origin: greek, 14th century

• A secluded residence
• The home of a hermit

Examples of Hermitage in a sentence

• We bought our lake home with five acres of land because we needed a hermitage to escape to. 
• While walking through the woods, the kids discovered a hermitage that seemed abandoned.

About Hermitage

Hermit, one who lives in seclusion, plus the suffix “-age,” meaning place of living or business, gives you hermitage. While you can use it quite literally to describe the home of a hermit, it is also used to describe a retreat or hideaway. You can also apply it to describe a religious dwelling, such as a monastery.

Did you Know?

Yes, hermitage means an isolated or secluded residence, but it’s such a great sounding word that it’s been adopted as the name of many towns and villages. You can visit Hermitage in England (in Dorset and Berkshire!), Scotland, Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and even the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Yesterday's Word...

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5

Milieu

[meel-YOO]Part of speech: noun

Origin: french, late 18th century

• A surrounding culture and environment
• The atmosphere or ambiance

Examples of Milieu in a sentence

• The mark of a good sci-fi novel is an elaborate milieu for the characters to inhabit. 
• The milieu of the neighborhood changed after the mega grocery store opened up. 

About Milieu

With its French inspiration, milieu appears to be quite a sophisticated word. Its original usage was to describe one’s place in society — were you a member of the upper-crust milieu or were you working class? The definition has expanded to describe the general neighborhood and environmental surroundings, not just social standing.

Did you Know?

Milieu is a loan word, or a word taken from another language with no modification. In French, milieu means middle, or, just like in English, the setting or environment. There’s also a French phrase, “au milieu de,” which means “in the middle of.”

Comments

[pfrye.livejournal.com]

Illya Kuryakin had never had a place of his own. He was raised in a crowded home with brothers and sisters, then the orphanages and state schools after the war, the military and then crowded school dormitories. His small apartment in the Village was often ridiculed by Napoleon.

"You can afford better partner!" Napoleon couldn't understand that even though it was small, cramped, of dubious quality, furnished with second hand items It was his hermitage. Here Illya could relax, read, hide away from everyone and indulge himself in ways that would have been unthinkable prior to coming to New York.

[emmereeves.livejournal.com]

for quite some time i attend poland spring milieu at a french hermitage in glen oaks.

zucker is the director and the setting is hillside.

during milieu i paint portraits of various playgirls which they place in gallleries.