Shrine
Meaning of Shrine
- 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
a Hindu shrine at which offerings are placed twice a day
- enshrine.
a goddess shrined in every tree
Old English scrīn ‘cabinet, chest, reliquary’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schrijn and German Schrein, from Latin scrinium ‘chest for books’.
Information about Shrine
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Hyphenation of Shrine
Shrine
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 letters.
- Shrine is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Shrine synonyms
Meaning enshrine:
Meaning a building devoted to the worship of a god or gods:
Meaning a building used for public Christian worship:
Meaning a small building or room used for Christian worship in a school, prison, hospital, or large private house:
Meaning (in biblical use) a fixed or movable dwelling, typically of light construction:
Meaning the table in a Christian church at which the bread and wine are consecrated in communion services:
Meaning a holy place; a temple:
Meaning a sacred place, especially a shrine within a temple or church:
Meaning a dome-shaped building erected as a Buddhist shrine:
Meaning drink alcohol to excess, especially on a regular basis:
Meaning the tomb or shrine of a Muslim saint:
Meaning a Muslim holy man or hermit, especially in North Africa:
Meaning (chiefly in Tibet) a Buddhist shrine, typically a saint's tomb or a monument to the Buddha:
Meaning the sanctuary of a church:
Meaning a temple or shrine:
Meaning a shrine or church erected in honour of a martyr:
Meaning a receptacle shaped like a shrine or a cup with an arched cover, used in the Christian Church to hold the Eucharist:
Meaning a portable shrine containing the relics of a saint:
Anagrams of Shrine
renish, Rhines, rhines, Shiner, shiner
Words that rhyme with Shrine
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