shrine
noun/ʃraɪn/
/ʃraɪn/
- a place where people come to worship because it is connected with a holy person or event
- to visit the shrine of Mecca
- shrine to somebody/something a shrine to the Virgin Mary
Extra ExamplesTopics Religion and festivalsc1, Buildingsc1- The people worshipped at wayside shrines.
- This shrine is sacred to the Hindu god Vishnu.
- a shrine dedicated to the sea goddess
- the shrine of St Cuthbert at Durham
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- hallowed
- holy
- religious
- …
- build
- create
- erect
- …
- city
- room
- at a/the shrine
- shrine of
- shrine to
- …
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- a place that people visit because it is connected with somebody/something that is important to them
- The singer’s grave in Paris has become a shrine.
- shrine for somebody Wimbledon is a shrine for all lovers of tennis.
- shrine to somebody/something They have turned the room into a shrine to their dead son.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- hallowed
- holy
- religious
- …
- build
- create
- erect
- …
- city
- room
- at a/the shrine
- shrine of
- shrine to
- …
Word OriginOld 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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