shrine

Definitions


[ʃrʌɪn], (Noun)

Definitions:
- 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
(e.g: the medieval pilgrim route to the shrine of St James)


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Origin:
Old English scrīn ‘cabinet, chest, reliquary’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schrijn and German Schrein, from Latin scrinium ‘chest for books’


[ʃrʌɪn], (Verb)

Definitions:
- enshrine
(e.g: a goddess shrined in every tree)


Phrases:

Origin:
Old English scrīn ‘cabinet, chest, reliquary’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schrijn and German Schrein, from Latin scrinium ‘chest for books’




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