SHRINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shrine mean? 

• SHRINE (noun)
  The noun SHRINE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SHRINE used as a noun is very rare.

• SHRINE (verb)
  The verb SHRINE has 1 sense:

1. enclose in a shrine

  Familiarity information: SHRINE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHRINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("shrine" is a kind of...):

house of God; house of prayer; house of worship; place of worship (any building where congregations gather for prayer)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shrine"):

oracle (a shrine where an oracular god is consulted)

stupa; tope (a dome-shaped shrine erected by Buddhists)

Instance hyponyms:

Caaba; Kaaba ((Islam) a black stone building in Mecca that is shaped like a cube and that is the most sacred Muslim pilgrim shrine; believed to have been given by Gabriel to Abraham; Muslims turn in its direction when praying)

Derivation:

shrine (enclose in a shrine)

• SHRINE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they shrine    ... he / she / it shrines   
Past simple: shrined   
Past participle: shrined   
-ing form: shrining   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enclose in a shrine

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

enshrine; shrine

Context example:

the saint's bones were enshrined in the cathedral

Hypernyms (to "shrine" is one way to...):

close in; enclose; inclose; shut in (surround completely)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

shrine (a place of worship hallowed by association with some sacred thing or person)

 Context examples 

And burning to lay herself upon the shrine of sisterly devotion, she sat down to settle that point.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“It is a shrine of Our Lady,” said Terlake, “and a blind beggar who lives by the alms of those who worship there.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"You worship at the shrine of the established," he told her once, in a discussion they had over Praps and Vanderwater.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

All these relics gave to the third storey of Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine of memory.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Here and there was a peasant man or woman kneeling before a shrine, who did not even turn round as we approached, but seemed in the self-surrender of devotion to have neither eyes nor ears for the outer world.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

For every statue, cut gem, shrine, carven screen, or what else might please the eye of a learned clerk, there are a good hundred to our one.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But there came a time when Laurie ceased to worship at many shrines, hinted darkly at one all-absorbing passion, and indulged occasionally in Byronic fits of gloom.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I mounted into the window- seat: gathering up my feet, I sat cross-legged, like a Turk; and, having drawn the red moreen curtain nearly close, I was shrined in double retirement.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“This very night will I set apart a golden ouche to be offered on the shrine of my name-saint. I have pined for this, Aylward, as a young maid pines for her lover.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They all liked Jo immensely, but never fell in love with her, though very few escaped without paying the tribute of a sentimental sigh or two at Amy's shrine.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)