shrine
Noun:
- A place of worship or veneration: A shrine is a location considered sacred because of its association with a deity, saint, holy person, or a revered object. It is often a site for prayer, pilgrimage, or memorial.
- A container for sacred relics: Historically, a shrine can also refer to a casket or an ornate box designed to hold holy relics.
Verb:
- To enclose in or as if in a shrine: To preserve or honor something by placing it within a sacred or revered context.
- To cherish as sacred: To hold something in very high, almost religious, esteem.
Noun:
- Pilgrims travel from all over the world to visit the shrine.
- The ancient shrine was built around a sacred spring.
- The family kept a small shrine with photographs of their ancestors.
Verb:
- The original constitution is enshrined in a glass case at the museum.
- The principles of freedom are enshrined in the nation's founding documents.
"To be/serve as a shrine to someone/something": To function as a place dedicated to the memory or honor of a person or ideal.
- The library serves as a shrine to the author's life and work.
"To hold something/someone in shrine-like reverence": To treat with an exceptionally high degree of respect and veneration.
- Fans hold the late musician's guitar in shrine-like reverence.
Enshrine (verb): To preserve or cherish as sacred. This is the most common verb form derived from "shrine."
- The law enshrines the right to free speech.
Shrinal (adjective): Pertaining to a shrine (rarely used in modern English).
- Noun: Sanctuary, sanctum, temple, reliquary, memorial.
- Verb: Consecrate, preserve, hallow, treasure, venerate.
National shrine: A shrine of particular importance to a nation.
- The monument is considered a national shrine.
Wayside shrine: A small shrine located by a roadside or path.
- The travelers stopped to pray at the wayside shrine.
A shrine to consumerism: Used critically to describe a place devoted to shopping and material goods.
- The new luxury mall has been called a shrine to consumerism.
To make a shrine of something: To treat an ordinary object or place with excessive reverence.
- After his first novel was published, he made a shrine of the old typewriter he used.
- a place of worship hallowed by association with some sacred thing or person
- enclose in a shrine
- the saint's bones were enshrined in the cathedral