Noun: shrine
| Singular | shrine |
| Plural | shrines |
Sample Sentences
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Entering the tunnel, we pass a small shrine above our heads which contains a statue of St Barbara, the patron saint of tunnellers. It is traditional to have such shrines on every tunnel site. [2022 March 23, Paul Bigland, “HS2 is just 'passing through'”, in RAIL, number 953, page 41:]
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a shrine of art
Nouns inflected like shrine
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English shryne, from Old English scrīn (“reliquary, ark of the covenant”), from Medieval Latin scrīnium (“reliquary”), “case or chest for books or papers” in Classical Latin. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Compare Old Norse skrín, Old High German skrīni (German Schrein). See: Middle English Nouns '
shryne', German Nouns '
Schrein'.
Verbs referencing "shrine"
Swedish Nouns
skrin, Hungarian Nouns
szekrény.