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Spanish: anacorética

English translation: reclusive







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Spanish term or phrase:anacorética
English translation:reclusive
Entered by:Miguel Falquez-Certain
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Spanish term or phrase: anacorética
Also from a photographic exhibition. The writer talks about "cierta experiencia anacorética"

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DylanS
Spain
a reclusive experience
Explanation:
Unless the photographer is referring to a specific historical anchorite figure, the metaphorical use would be reclusive, a person living "far from the madding crowd" (Hardy).
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Miguel Falquez-Certain
United States
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Thanks very much, this is a very helpful answer.
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5 +4a reclusive experience
Miguel Falquez-Certain
4 +1anchoritic, hermiticxxxOso


  


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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
anchoritic, hermitic

Explanation:
anchoritic, eremitic, eremitical, hermitic, hermitical
characterized by ascetic solitude; "the eremitic element in the life of a religious colony"; "his hermitic existence"


Good luck from Oso ¶:^)

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Adapted From: WordNet 2.0 Copyright 2003 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.


anacorético, ca.
1. adj. Perteneciente o relativo al anacoreta.

anacoreta
1. com. Persona que vive en lugar solitario, entregada enteramente a la contemplación y a la penitencia.
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xxxOso
United States
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 28

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree María Teresa Taylor Oliver: De una vez me acordé de la canción de Mecano que habla sobre Dalí :o) Estoy de acuerdo con tu respuesta en caso de que el registro sea ése... de otro modo, me gusta más la de Nigel. Saludos, Osito.
33 mins
  -> Muchas gracias, MariTere y yo me acordé de "El anacoreta" (1976), una película de Juan Esterlich que vi hace chorro mil años. Feliz fin de semana ¶:^)
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26 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +4
a reclusive experience

Explanation:
Unless the photographer is referring to a specific historical anchorite figure, the metaphorical use would be reclusive, a person living "far from the madding crowd" (Hardy).

Miguel Falquez-Certain
United States
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 8
Note from asker to answerer
Thanks very much, this is a very helpful answer.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree María Teresa Taylor Oliver: Yes, sounds more natural... not that the other answers are incorrect.
7 mins

agree Leopoldo Gurman: Coincido. Mi voto no desmerece las otras respuestas, es una cuestión de sonoridad =:)
28 mins

agree Henry Hinds
2 hrs

agree Muriel Vasconcellos
4 hrs
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