shrine

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This shrine is the third most visited Catholic pilgrimage site in the world.

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  1. noun A place of religious devotion or commemoration, such as:
  2. noun a place where devotion is paid to a deity or deities, as in Shinto.
  3. noun the tomb of a saint or other venerated person.
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  • The first miracle of his shrine was the order for his servants and tenants to go to worship while he ostentatiously stayed on the chateau side of the moats. —  Title here
  • This shrine was an exact duplicate of the one I'd just left, right down to the bouquet of white plastic flowers in its vase. —  EQMM,June2008
  • The authorities at the shrine will be allowed to build facilities to house Hindus during the annual pilgrimage, which lasts as long as three months, Karan said. —  Bloggers.Pakistan
  • This shrine is the third most visited Catholic pilgrimage site in the world. —  On An Overgrown Path
  • 'Giving this name to this shrine is also designed to let the entire world understand that Islam is a religion of tolerance that enjoys innate readiness of communication with other faiths,' he said. —  India eNews
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temple ·  tomb ·  altar ·  chapel ·  relic ·  statue ·  sanctuary ·  edifice ·  idol ·  building ·  rite ·  pillar

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shrine:   shrines
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  1. Middle English, from Old English scrīn, box, from Latin scrīnium, case for books or papers.

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  1. from Middle English shryne, schrin, schryne, scryne, from Anglo-Saxon serīn, an ark (used with reference to the ark of the covenant), =D. schrijn =Middle Low German schrīn =Old High German scrīni, Middle High German schrīn, German schrein =Icelandic skrīn =Swedish Danish skrin =Old French scrin, escrin (later English scrine), French écrin =Provencal escrin =Old Spanish escrinio, escriño, a box, shrine, =Italian scrigno =Old Bulgarian skriniya, skrina =Servian skrinya =Bohemian skrzhine =Polish skrzynia, krzynia =Russian skrynya, skrinǔ =Hungarian szekrény =Lithuanian shrīne =Lettish skrīne, skrīnis, a shrine, =L. scrinium, a chest, box, case, letter-case, escritoire, casket, Middle Latin (ecclesiastical) a shrine; root unknown. Chest, box, and ark are also derived through Anglo-Saxon from L. (box ult. from Greek); case is also derived from L. through F.
  2. from Middle English shrynen, schrynen, enshrine, canonize; from shrine, n. Cf. enshrine.
 

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