Definitions

1. noun

A person, especially a man, who lives alone, often in solitude, and shuns society.

“He was a hermite who preferred to spend his days reading in solitude.”

2. noun

A French mathematician and scientist who developed a system of orthogonal functions now known as Hermite polynomials.

“Pierre-Simon de Laplace was influenced by the work of Charles Hermite.”

3. adjective

Relating to or characteristic of a hermit.

“The hermite village was isolated from the rest of the world.”