Shrine

Definition: Shrine

Shrine

Noun

1. A place of worship hallowed by association with some sacred thing or person.

Verb

1. Enclose in a shrine, as of an object for religious purposes.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "shrine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonym: Shrine

Drunkenness

Verb: get drunk, be drunk; Adjective: see double; take a drop too much, take a glass too much; drink; tipple, tope, booze, bouse, guzzle, swill, soak, sot, bum, besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush, bib, swig, carouse; sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus; take to drinking; drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish; have one's swill, drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you.

Interment

Monument, cenotaph, shrine; grave stone, head stone, tomb stone; memento mori; hatchment, stone; obelisk, pyramid.

Temple

Altar, shrine, sanctuary, Holy of Holies, sanctum sanctorum, sacristy; sacrarium; communion table, holy table, Lord's table; table of the Lord; pyx; baptistery, font; piscina, stoup; aumbry; sedile; reredos; rood loft, rood screen.

Crosswords: Shrine

Jane, what if he worships you? What if he's got a shrine with pictures of you surrounded by dead people's heads and stuff (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

Razor wire shrine (Building A Mystery; performing artist: Sarah McLachlan)

The Way-Out Shrine (1967)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Arlington National Cemetery : Shrine to America's Heroes (reference)

• Grasscutter II: Journey to Atsuta Shrine (Usagi Yojimbo, Book 15) (reference)

• Shrine of the Tooth Fairy (reference)

• The Lost Shrine of Liskeard: An Greiva Gellys a Lyskerrys (reference)

• The shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Takegami, Episode 1: Shrine of the Eight-headed Dragon (reference)

• The Alamo: Shrine of Texas Liberty (1938) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Full Moon & the Shrine (reference)

• Great 1955 Shrine Concert [LIVE] (reference)

• Shrine '69 [LIVE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A religious shrine at a far end of the Earth. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Shrine to _____ Williams who lost his life during Navy Antarctic operations in the 1950's when his tractor broke through the sea ice and he was drowned. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Crossing of the cultures - Roman Catholic shrine on Yapese money wheel. Credit: Small World.

Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine. Credit: NPS.

Royal Oak, Mich. Portrait of 3 children in the neighborhood of Father Coughlin's Shrine of the Little Flower P. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Arthur Siegel..

Congratulates Reserve Officer Candidates Richard Dufallo, Band Leader of the ROC Band, and John Halloran, Drum Major, at ceremonies at Naval Air Station, Los Alamitos, California, in which "USS Small Fry", the World's only curved deck "aircraft carrier" was placed in commission for the use of model airplane enthusiasts, circa 1951-52. The ROC Band played the honors on this occasion, at the Shrine Charity Benefit at the Los Angeles Coliseum, and at numerous other events during their summer training session. Credit: NAVY.

Worshipping at their own little shrine. Credit: Library of Congress.

Honoring their ancestral heroes - beautiful Shinto priestess prepares the sacred carp for offering to shrine, Tokyo. Credit: Library of Congress.

Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress, holding up U.S. Constitution, at dedication before placing it in its shrine at the Library of Congress. Credit: Library of Congress.

Shrine at Catholic college, St. Paul, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Children

Ghana

Shrine priests generally are male, but may be female as well. (references)

Ghana

She also may leave the shrine and return to her village, with her family's association then sundered with the shrine. (references)

Ghana

As a charge of the priest, the girl works in the shrine and undergoes instruction in the traditional indigenous religion. (references)

Economic History

Cambodia

Temples were altered to display images of the Buddha, and Angkor Wat became a major Buddhist shrine. (references)

Japan

Many marriages are held in the shrines, and children are brought after birth and on certain anniversary dates; special shrine days are celebrated for certain occasions, and numerous festivals are held throughout the year. (references)

Cambodia

During the 15th century, nearly all of Angkor was abandoned after Siamese attacks, except Angkor Wat, which remained a shrine for Buddhist pilgrims.The great city and temples remained largely cloaked by the forest until the late 19th century when French archaeologists began a long restoration process. (references)

Human Rights

India

Some observers have alleged that it was a policeman who threw a grenade into the Charar-e-Sharif shrine in Srinagar on June 8, killing four persons and wounding many others. (references)

Minorities

Ghana

Christo Asafo members attacked the shrine in retaliation. (references)

Sri Lanka

Thousands of Catholics took the opportunity to visit the shrine. (references)

Political Economy

Sri Lanka

The January 1996 destruction of the Central Bank and surrounding buildings in Colombo's financial district, the October 1997 bombing of the World Trade Center and adjacent five-star hotels in the same vicinity and the January 1998 attack on the country's pre-eminent Buddhist shrine in Kandy, the Temple of the Tooth Relic, were particularly hard blows to investor (and tourist) confidence. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "shrine": Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Additional references.

Beginning with "shrine": shrine-building, shrine-first, shrine-like, shrine-tree.

Ending with "shrine": Fortress-shrine, horse-shrine.

Albanian

vend i shenjtë (sanctum), varr (grave, lair, Mold, mould, sepulchre, tomb), kuti reliktesh të shenjta, faltore (chapel, pagoda, sanctuary, tabernacle, temple). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مكان عالي, ‏مقام مزار (stay), ‏موضع مقدس, ‏مزار (marabout, sanctuary), ‏قبر (burial, bury, grave, inter, sepulcher, sepulture, tomb), ‏ضريح مقدس, ‏ضريح (grave, mausoleum, sepulcher, sepulchre, tomb). (various references)

Bulgarian 

свето място, ковчег за мощи, капище, гробница на светец, олтар посветен на светец, олтар (altar, communion table, presbytery, sanctuary), поставям в гробница. (various references)

Chinese 

龕 (niche), 神社 , 寺廟 (monastery, temple). (various references)

Czech

svatynì (sanctuary, temple). (various references)

Danish

romersk-katolsk valfartssted (Roman Catholic shrine). (various references)

Dutch

rooms-katholiek bedevaartsoord (Roman Catholic shrine). (various references)

Farsi 

معبد, زیارتگاه , جای مقدس , درمعبدقراردادن . (various references)

Finnish

pyhäkkö (sanctuary). (various references)

French

tombeau, mausolée, lieu saint, lieu de pèlerinage, haut lieu. (various references)

German

Schrein (coffin, reliquary), Heiligengrab. (various references)

Greek 

βωμόσ (altar), ιεροφυλάκιο (sacristy, vestry), ναόσ (church, sanctuary, tabernacle, temple), παρεκκλήσι (chapel), φυλάσσω ευλαβώσ, λειψανοθήκη (reliquary), λάρνακα (urn). (various references)

Hebrew 

מקום קדוש (sanctuary, sanctum), מקדש (sanctuary, temple), קבר קדוש. (various references)

Hungarian

síremlék (cenotaph, mausolea, mausoleum, sepulcher, sepulchre, tomb), ereklyetartó (custodial, reliquary), szentély (apse, bast, chancel, penetralia, presbytery, sanctuary, sanctum), szent hely (sanctuary), oltár (altar, communion table), kegyhely, díszes síremlék. (various references)

Italian

sepolcro (grave, sepulcher, sepulchre, tomb), santuario (sainthood, sanctuary, sanctum), reliquario (reliquary). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

霊殿 (mausoleum), 祭殿 (sanctuary), 当社 (firm), 内陣 (inner temple, sanctuary), 宮居 (imperial palace). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ないじん (inner temple, sanctuary), さいでん (sanctuary), れいでん (mausoleum), みやい (imperial palace), とうしゃ (copy, firm, mimeograph, photocopy, projection, tracing, transcription). (various references)

Manx

coodaghey ayns chiamble, chiamble argid. (various references)

Pig Latin

ineshray.(various references)

Portuguese

santuário (bethel, chancel, fane, penetralia, presbytery, sanctuary, sumptuary), sacrário (sanctuary, sanctum, tabernacle), urna (ballot box, casket, urn), túmulo de santo, relicário (feretory, reliquary), abside (apse). (various references)

Romanian

sanctuar (altar, sanctuary), mormânt (cell, collection, grave, last resting-place, Mold, monument, mould, sepulchre, sepulture, the tomb, tomb, urn), moaşte (relic, relics), cosciug (coffin), chivot (monstrance), altar (altar, Fane, sanctuary). (various references)

Russian 

святыня (sanctity), рака (feretory, reliquary, sanctum), храм (church, fane, sanctuary, tabernacle, temple), гробница (cist, entombment, feretory, sepulchre, tomb). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

svetilište (sanctuary), oltar (altar), ćivot. (various references)

Spanish

santuario (sanctuary, sanctum), relicario (feretory, locket, reliquary), mausoleo (mausoleum), lugar santo, capilla (band, chapel), altar (altar). (various references)

Swedish

helgongrav. (various references)

Thai

ใช้เป็นที่บูชา, แท่นบูชา, ศาลเจ้า. (various references)

Turkish

tapınak (chapel, Fane, place of worship, sanctuary, tabernacle, temple), türbe (mausoleum, sepulcher, sepulchre, tomb), kutsal emanetlerın saklandığı yer. (various references)

Ukrainian

святиня (holy), рака (feretory, sanctum), вівтар (altar, chancel, sanctuary). (various references)

Vietnamese 

miếu thờ nơi linh thiêng, mộ điện thờ, hòm đựng thánh cốt lăng. (various references)

èš, e�, zà. (various references)

aširtu, bîtu. (various references)

adytis, aedem, aedes, aedibus, aediculam, aediculas, aedis, delubra, delubris, delubrum, sacrario, sacrarium, sanctuaria, sanctuarii, sanctuario, sanctuarium, scrinium, templa, templi, templis, templo, templum, templumque. (various references)

sanctuarium. (various references)

scryn. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "shrine": shrined, shrines. (additional references)

Words ending with "shrine": enshrine, inshrine. (additional references)

Words containing "shrine": enshrined, enshrinee, enshrinees, enshrinement, enshrinements, enshrines, inshrined, inshrines. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Shrine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hrivna, Saranne, sarine, Sharina, Sherice, Shirinov, shirner, shirnp, Shirone, Shorina, shribe, shrime, Shrinam, shrined, shriner, shrinet, shring, shrinked, shrinker, shrinpe, shripe, Shriteh, Shrlie, shrond, shrone, Shurin, srene, strine, surine. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: shiner.

-1 letter: heirs, herns, hires, reins, resin, rinse, risen, serin, shier, shine, shire, siren.

-2 letters: erns, heir, hens, hern, hers, hies, hins, hire, hisn, ires, rein, reis, resh, rins, rise, shin, shri, sine, sinh, sire.

-3 letters: ens, ern, ers, hen, her, hes, hie, hin, his, ins, ire, rei, res, rin, sei, sen, ser, she, sin.

+1 letter: henries, hernias, heroins, hinders, hingers, hinters, inheres, inshore, menhirs, nerdish, reshine, richens, shiners, shinier, shrined, shrines, shriven, whiners.

+2 letters: archines, banisher, chorines, christen, citherns, cithrens, enravish, enriches, enshrine, errhines, finisher, freshing, gherkins, greenish, grinches, hairnets, harmines, hearings, hearsing, heparins, heroines, herrings, hordeins, horniest, inarches, inearths, inhalers, inherits, inhumers, inrushes, inshrine, insphere, nephrism, ornithes, pinchers, pinscher, punisher, refinish, rehinges, reshined, reshines, rethinks, rheniums, richness, seraphin, shearing, sheenier, sheering, shingler, shinnery, shrewing, shrinker, snitcher, sphering, thinkers, thinners, ushering, vanisher, winchers, zitherns.