'Shrine' definitions:
Definition of 'shrine'
(from WordNet)
noun
A place of worship hallowed by association with some sacred thing or person
verb
Enclose in a shrine; "the saint's bones were enshrined in the cathedral" [syn: enshrine, shrine]
Definition of 'Shrine'
From: GCIDE
- Shrine \Shrine\, v. t. To enshrine; to place reverently, as in a shrine. "Shrined in his sanctuary." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Shrine'
From: GCIDE
- Shrine \Shrine\ (shr[imac]n), n. [OE. schrin, AS. scr[imac]n, from L. scrinium a case, chest, box.]
- 1. A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Any sacred place, as an altar, tromb, or the like. [1913 Webster]
- Too weak the sacred shrine guard. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A place or object hallowed from its history or associations; as, a shrine of art. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Short for
- Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, a secret fraternal organization professedly originated by one Kalif Alu, a son-in-law of Mohammed, at Mecca, in the year of the Hegira 25 (about 646 a. d.) In the modern order, established in the United States in 1872, only Knights Templars or thirty-second degree Masons are eligible for admission, though the order itself is not Masonic. A member of the order is popularly called a Shriner, and the order itself is sometimes called the Shriners. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
Synonyms of 'shrine'
From: Moby 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