shrine Definition
shrine (s̸hrīn)
noun
- reliquary
- a niche or other setting for a statue, picture, or other object arousing or designed to arouse devotion
- a small area or structure arranged for private devotion
- a place revered as the place of death or burial of a saint or other venerable personage
- a place revered as the site of a reported supernatural apparition, miraculous occurrence, etc.
- any of certain churches or chapels often visited by pilgrims, specif. by those seeking special spiritual help, cures, etc.
- any site or structure used in worship or devotion; esp., an area or a temple or templelike structure used in the worship of one or more deities
- a place or structure esteemed for its importance or centrality as in history or the arts
- a place or structure designed as a memorial to someone or something
Etymology: ME schrin < OE scrin < L scrinium, chest, box, orig., a round container < IE *(s)krei- < base *(s)ker-, to turn: see shrink
transitive verb shrined, shrin′·ing
shrine Synonyms
shrine
n.
shrine Usage Examples
Preposition: of
saint: They ask permission to enter or leave the shrine of the saint.
Converse of object
- dedicate: In Japan there were no shrines dedicated to living emperors.
- erect: To honor and worship Apollonius, they erected shrines and other memorials.
- visit: Visiting the Shrine of the " Iberian Mother of God " .
- restore: This was the original heart of the restored Catholic shrine.
- build: Build a small personal shrine or a large Temple!
- destroy: This statue was itself based on the Great Seal of the Abbey of Walsingham from the original Shrine destroyed in 1538.
Adjective modifier
- anglo-catholic: They also held the patronage of several major Anglo-catholic shrines in the east end of London.
- holy: Formerly 3,000 Iranian pilgrims were allowed to visit the holy shrines in Iraq, he added.
- inmost: On the one hand, the inmost shrine in which it is fashioned and nursed, the shrine of this poor heart of mine!
- sacred: On this tour we visit the sacred shrines of our ancestors whose spirit dwells in these natural sanctuaries.
- makeshift: Only family wreaths adorn the graveside while hundreds of floral tributes, scarves and football tops have been moved to a makeshift shrine nearby.
Modifies a noun
room: Some aspect of the shrine room was apparently keeping the unhealthy spiral at bay.
Noun used with modifier
- wayside: He converted the church porch into a wayside shrine where people could write their requests for prayers in a book.
- Buddhist: A cyber reconstruction of the world's largest Buddhist shrine.
- pagan: The Cheese Well may have been a pagan shrine in the past, whose veneration has fallen to superstition.
- roadside: At the scene of the accident Tim finds a little girl ( Jane Asher ) who has built a roadside shrine to Pierre.
- cave: St Fillan's cave shrine is near Pittenweem harbor.
- family: The child is now fit to study the scriptures and carry out worship in the family shrine.
Browse dictionary entries near shrine
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