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HOLY PLACE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does holy place mean?
• HOLY PLACE (noun)
The noun HOLY PLACE has 1 sense:
1. a sacred place of pilgrimage
Familiarity information: HOLY PLACE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A sacred place of pilgrimage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("holy place" is a kind of...):
place; spot; topographic point (a point located with respect to surface features of some region)
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