SHRINE


Meaning of SHRINE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

small

They reverently built a small shrine for the book in one of Mrs Puri's flowerbeds.

Just past one bad curve, a small shrine has been erected, La Virgen surrounded by three concrete crosses recently whitewashed.

They had arrived in a shady grove around a small stone shrine .

In the west of Ireland a small roadside shrine to the Virgin Mary stands almost alongside an equally modest stone circle.

When we passed a small shrine by the side of the track everyone let out an almighty whoop of greeting.

■ VERB

become

He was celebrated there as a martyr, and his grave became a shrine , a sacred site, a pilgrimage centre.

There he found the skeleton of a whale, a sperm whale, which had become a shrine for the natives.

Q: Indeed, it seems St Joseph's has become a holy shrine to many.

Her classroom has become a virtual shrine to the Olympics.

They kept everything, and the bedrooms of the mixing boys became their shrines .

The mound becomes a temporary shrine .

His Denbigh Terrace home became a shrine of tin signs advertising elixirs, tobaccos and teas.

build

They reverently built a small shrine for the book in one of Mrs Puri's flowerbeds.

My sister and I continue to be venerated by our people, who built shrines and declared national holidays in our honor.

There I built a shrine and sacrificed a he-goat in the name of the truth.

Still he wouldn't sell for them to build a shrine , so the cattle began to die.

visit

On average, 250 pilgrims visit the shrine every weekend from Easter to September.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a Shinto shrine

the Lenin shrine in Moscow

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Both shrines flourish today and co-operate ecumenically.

Hope then built a beautiful shrine at the other end of the village.

In the same fashion, they also brought down the Shinto shrine .

Kalchu took off his shoes and went into the shrine .

To me, this voyage was something much more-it was a pilgrimage to the shrine of my philosophy.

Various offerings of Sake, branches and salt were made to the shrine that had been established on the site.

You were more interested in having us bow before the shrine than teaching students.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.