Shrine

Noun

 * 1) A place that is holy.

Related terms

 * enshrine
 * Shriner

Adjectives for Shrine
popular; tourist; despoiled; innumerable (pi); unhallowed; mysterious; desecrated; veritable; haunted; exploited; cherished; celebrated; echoing;  secret;  competing; wayside; nameless; inmost; fragrant; happy; gloomy; unrivaled; miraculous.

Verbs for Shrine
abandon—; banish from—; bar from—; consecrate—; contaminate—; convert into —; dedicate—; deface—; defile—; desecrate —; dismantle—; enthrone in—; exalt—; hallow—; immortalize—; invade—; isolate —mutilate—; penetrate—;  pervert—;prostitute—; sanctify—; seclude in—; sequester in—; transgress—; violate—; worship in—; —symbolizes.

Thesaurus
arch, barrow, beehive tomb, bone house, boundary stone, box grave, brass, burial, burial chamber, burial mound, bust, cairn, catacombs, cenotaph, charnel house, cist, cist grave, column, cromlech, cross, crypt, cup, cyclolith, dagoba, deep six, delubrum, dokhma, dolmen, enshrinement, footstone, grave, gravestone, headstone, hoarstone, holy place, house of death, inscription, last home, long home, low green tent, low house, marker, mastaba, mausoleum, megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, monolith, monstrance, monument, mound, mummy chamber, naos, narrow house, necrology, obelisk, obituary, ossuarium, ossuary, passage grave, pillar, pit, plaque, prize, pyramid, reliquaire, reliquary, remembrance, resting place, ribbon, rostral column, sacrarium, sanctuary, sanctum, sepulcher, shaft, shaft grave, stela, stone, stupa, tablet, testimonial, tomb, tombstone, tope, tower of silence, trophy, tumulus, vault

Etymology
ſhryne, from scrin “reliquary, ark of the covenant”, from  scrinium “case or chest for books or papers”. Of unknown origin. Compare Old Norse skrin, Old High German skrini

Pronunciation




Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: ضريح
 * Armenian: սրբավայր
 * Bosnian:, ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 神社, 聖地, 圣地, 聖堂, 圣堂
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: svatyně
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: adorejo
 * Estonian: pühapaik
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: sanctuaire, châsse , lieu saint
 * Georgian: ტაძარი, საკურთხეველი, აკლდამა
 * German:
 * Greek: ιερό (ʰieró), λάρνακα (lárnaka)
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: मन्दिर, दरगाह
 * Hungarian: kegyhely, búcsújáróhely
 * Hungarian: kegyhely, búcsújáróhely


 * Italian: reliquiario ,
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Korean:, 신사
 * Latin:, ,
 * Latvian: svētnīca
 * Lithuanian: šventykla
 * Macedonian: параклис
 * Mongolian: бунхан
 * Norwegian: skrin, helgenskrin
 * Persian: زيارتگاه
 * Polish: miejsce kultu, świątynia
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, , храм
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: светиња, шкриња , храм , светиштe
 * Roman: svetinja, škrinja , hram , svetište
 * Slovak: svätyňa
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Welsh: cysegrfan

Anagrams

 * shiner