SHRINE


Meaning of SHRINE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ʃraɪn ]

( shrines)

1.

A shrine is a place of worship which is associated with a particular holy person or object.

...the holy shrine of Mecca.

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2.

A shrine is a place that people visit and treat with respect because it is connected with a dead person or with dead people that they want to remember.

The monument has been turned into a shrine to the dead and the missing.

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