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- Dictionaryshrine/SHrīn/
noun
- 1. a place regarded as holy because of its associations with a divinity or a sacred person or relic, marked by a building or other construction: "the medieval pilgrim route to the shrine of St. James" Similar
verb
- 1. enshrine: literary "a goddess shrined in every tree"
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The meaning of SHRINE is a case, box, or receptacle; especially : one in which sacred relics (such as the bones of a saint) are deposited. How to use shrine in a sentence.
a place for worship that is holy because of a connection with a holy person or object: Islam's most sacred shrine is at Mecca in Saudi Arabia. a special place in which you remember and praise someone who has died, especially someone famous: She's turned her bedroom into a shrine to the dead pop star and covered the walls with pictures of him.
a building or other shelter, often of a stately or sumptuous character, enclosing the remains or relics of a saint or other holy person and forming an object of religious veneration and pilgrimage. any place or object hallowed by its history or associations: a historic shrine.
a place for worship that is holy because of a connection with a holy person or object: Islam's most sacred shrine is at Mecca in Saudi Arabia. a special place in which you remember and praise someone who has died, especially someone famous: She's turned her bedroom into a shrine to the dead pop star and covered the walls with pictures of him.
Think of a shrine as a niche or case in which the spirit of someone special is kept. It could be a statue or some other form of commemoration to either a person or a relic. A shrine can be as small as a tiny mantel in your house or it can be as massive as a building commemorating, or shrining, a sacred person.
A shrine is a place that people visit and treat with respect because it is connected with a dead person or with dead people that they want to remember. The monument has been turned into a shrine to the dead and the missing.
Definition of shrine noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
