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- Dictionaryshrine/ʃrʌɪn/
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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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.
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 shrine ( Latin: scrinium "case or chest for books or papers"; Old French: escrin "box or case") [1] is a sacred space dedicated to a specific deity, ancestor, hero, martyr, saint, daemon, or similar figure of respect, wherein they are venerated or worshipped.
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.
noun. 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 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.
1. A place of religious devotion or commemoration, such as: a. a place where devotion is paid to a deity or deities, as in Shinto. b. the tomb of a saint or other venerated person. c. a location where an important event in the life of a holy person is thought to have occurred. 2. A container or receptacle for sacred relics; a reliquary. 3.
noun. /ʃraɪn/ a place where people come to worship because it is connected with a holy person or event. to visit the shrine of Mecca. shrine to somebody/something a shrine to the Virgin Mary. Extra Examples. Topics Religion and festivals c1, Buildings c1. Oxford Collocations Dictionary. Definitions on the go.
SHRINE meaning: 1 : a place connected with a holy person or event where people go to worship; 2 : a place that people visit because it is connected with someone or something that is important to them.
SHRINE definition: a place where people go to pray because it is connected with a holy person or event. Learn more.
