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A hermit is a person who lives in seclusion from society.

Hermit may also refer to

Geography

• Hermit Island (disambiguation)
• Hermit Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea
• Hermit Mountain, British Columbia, Canada
• Hermit Peak, New Mexico, United States
• Hermit Trail, a hiking trail in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
• The Hermit (California mountain), a summit in the Sierra Nevada

Arts and entertainment

• A Hermit, a 1661 painting by Gerrit Dou
• The Hermit (Il solitario), a 1908 painting by John Singer Sargent
• The Hermit (novel), a 1973 novel by Eugène Ionesco
• The Hermit (band), a Canadian electronica band
• The Hermit (album), a 1976 album by John Renbourn
• Hermit (album), a 1997 album by Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal
• The Hermit, a painting used on the inner sleeve of the 1971 Led Zeppelin album Led Zeppelin IV

Other uses

• Garden hermit, or ornamental hermit, a person invited to live as a hermit on a wealthy landowner's estate
• Hermit, a type of spiced cookie
• Hermit (horse) (1864–1890), English thoroughbred
• Hermit (hummingbird), the hummingbird subfamily Phaethornithinae
• Hermit language, an extinct language that was spoken in Papua New Guinea
• The Hermit (tarot card), a trump card in tarot
• Hermit House, an example of vernacular architecture in Herzliya, Israel
• Hermit, a class in the online role-playing game MapleStory

See also

• List of people known as the Hermit
• Hermit beetle, a species of European beetle Osmoderma eremita
• Hermit butterfly, the brush-footed butterfly Chazara briseis
• Hermit crab, a crustacean of the superfamily Paguroidea
• Drenthe hermits, seven people discovered in Ruinerwold
• Esther Hermitte, a social anthropologist from Argentina
• Herman's Hermits, an English pop band
• Hermit Formation, an American geologic formation
• Hermite (disambiguation)
• Hermitage (disambiguation)