Definitions for Shrine

Shrine shrine

Spelling: [shrahyn]
IPA: /ʃraɪn/

Shrine is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 109 anagrams from letters in Shrine (ehinrs).

Definitions for Shrine

noun

  1. a building or other shelter, often of a stately or sumptuous character, enclosing the remains or relics of a saint or other holy person and forming an object of religious veneration and pilgrimage.
  2. any place or object hallowed by its history or associations:
  3. any structure or place consecrated or devoted to some saint, holy person, or deity, as an altar, chapel, church, or temple.
  4. a receptacle for sacred relics; a reliquary.

verb (used with object)

  1. to enshrine.

Origin of Shrine

before 1000; Middle English schrine, Old English scrīn (cognate with German Schrein, Dutch schrijn) Latin scrīnium case for books and papers

Examples for Shrine

The church became the shrine of the eikon of the Theotokos 227Hodegetria.

In a long struggle with a smack addiction, he made novenas at the shrine of St. Jude, patron of hopeless cases.

But the oracle comes because we had previously laid siege to the shrine.

Denied in his green-card application, he said, “I came instantly that day,” to the shrine.

The darkness of the shrine symbolises the darkness of the world, of life and death and being.

At the back of the garden you can see a shrine to the household gods.

But the crowd had heard him and the insult offered to the shrine.

Justin Bieber was forced to apologize for his visit to the shrine this week.

Many clients come from the neighborhood surrounding the shrine.

One of the most important rooms in the temple is the shrine of Sheik Adi ibn Musafir.

Word Value for Shrine
Scrable

9

Words with friends

9

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