shrine
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4.1
- noun
- /ʃraɪn/
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santuario
- Pilgrims from around the world visit the shrine dedicated to the famous saint every year.
- visit a shrine
- offerings at shrines
- rites at shrines
Not marking feast days, not assembling roadside shrines.
- Not marking feast days, not assembling roadside shrines.
- But it was also, it was also a memorial, but it was also a shrine.
- So not within the Sumerian temple, but within a Hellenistic shrine dedicated to Hiracles.
- The shrine There is a shrine, a sacred place in a cave watched over by his grandfather.
Examples
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It was a shrine on top of Kusu Island that caught fire.
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Mary remained frozen beside the shrine while Nora walked off to the cottage.
Fiction book (1993) -
My mother had a little shrine in the living room with my books on it.
Academic text (2011) -
And then we created like a shrine to those, those moments.
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It's a shrine of some sort and that shrine is surrounded by blue sky.
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And at his shrine you have small little Chapel shrine right next to it.
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The people who built the shrine were nomadic, so no houses have been found nearby.
Academic text (2008) -
Let's go pray at the shrine of Dolly the sheep.
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This is also an example of a, a Buddhist shrine in Myanmar.
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We passed the Wigwam restaurant, the Shrine of the Little Flower where Father Coughlin once presided.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
365
3.4
A building where people go to worship a god, for example in Hindu or ancient Greek religions
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5.5
A holy part of a religious building around the altar
15
6.7
A tall Asian temple with many levels and curved roofs
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3.5
A place where people go to pray, like a temple or church
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2.9
A place where people meet to pray or have religious services
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2.9
A building where people gather for prayer or religious services
3
9.1
A place where people ask a god for advice or to learn the future
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8.8
A temple in ancient Rome or Greece for all the gods
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9.9
A temple or holy building from ancient times
A shrine built around the grave of a Muslim saint where people pray and meet
A church or shrine built to remember a person who died for their beliefs
Compounds
How Sacred
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word shrine comes from the old Latin word scrinium meaning 'a small box' that held holy objects. So a shrine is like a special box or place that keeps and protects something sacred.