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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A sacred or holy place.
  2. n. A private place where one is free from intrusion.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A sacred place; a private retreat or room: as, an editor's sanctum.
  2. n. Any specially private place or retreat, not to be entered except by special permission or favor.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A place set apart, as with a sanctum sanctorum; a private retreat or workroom.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A sacred place; hence, a place of retreat; a room reserved for personal use.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a sacred place of pilgrimage
  2. n. a place of inviolable privacy

Etymologies

  1. Late Latin sānctum, from Latin, neuter of sānctus, sacred; see sanctify.

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