shrineshrine /ʃraɪn/ noun [countable] 
Word Origin
his pilgrimage to the shrine of St John2a place that people visit and respect because it is connected with a famous person or event: Elvis’ home has become a shrine for his fans.shrine to The museum is a shrine to the great Spanish artist.
Word OriginWORD ORIGINshrine
ExamplesOrigin:
Old English scrin, from Latin scrinium ‘case, box’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
word sets- a Shinto shrine
- the Lenin shrine in Moscow
- 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.
WORD SETS► Religion
Collocationsacolyte, nounafterlife, nounagnostic, nounangel, nounanimism, nounanoint, verbapostasy, nounapostate, nounarchangel, nounbelieve, verbbeliever, nounbell-ringer, nounbless, verbblessed, adjectiveblessing, nouncelebrant, nounChristian Science, nouncircumcise, verbcircumcision, nouncommunion, nounconfession, nounconvent, nounconversion, nounconvert, nouncoreligionist, nouncowl, nouncredo, nouncreed, nouncult, noundaemon, nounDecalogue, noundefrock, verbdeism, noundenomination, noundenominational, adjectivedevotee, noundevotion, noundevotional, adjectivedevout, adjectivedivine, adjectivedivinity, noundruid, nounfaith, nounfast day, nounfeast, nounfervour, nounfiesta, nounfollow, verbfrankincense, noungentile, noungod, noungoddess, noungrace, nounhabit, nounhair shirt, nounhallelujah, interjectionhallowed, adjectivehalo, nounheathen, adjectiveheathen, nounheaven, nounheavenly, adjectivehell, nounheresy, nounheretic, nounhermit, nounhermitage, nounheterodox, adjectivehigh priest, nounidol, nounidolatry, nounincarnation, nounincense, nouninfidel, nounintercession, nouninvocation, nouninvoke, verbirreligious, adjective-ism, suffixlayman, nounlaywoman, nounlibation, nounliturgical, adjectiveliturgy, nounmartyr, nounmartyr, verbmeditate, verbmeditation, nounmission, nounmonastery, nounmonastic, adjectivemonk, nounmonotheism, nounMoonie, nounMormon, nounMosaic, adjectivemystery play, nounmystic, nounmystical, adjectivemysticism, nounneophyte, nounnovice, nounnovitiate, nounnuminous, adjectivenun, nounnunnery, nounoblation, nounobservance, nounoffering, nounOlympian, adjectiveordain, verborder, nounorthodox, adjectiveotherworldly, adjectivepagan, adjectivepagan, nounpantheism, nounpantheon, nounParsee, nounpilgrim, nounpilgrimage, nounpious, adjectivepluralism, nounpolytheism, nounpractise, verbpray, verbprayer, nounprayer wheel, nounpreach, verbpreacher, nounpriest, nounpriestess, nounpriesthood, nounpriestly, adjectiveprophet, nounprophetess, nounpurify, verbRasta, nounRastafarian, nounRastaman, nounRE, nounrecant, verbreincarnation, nounreligious, adjectivereligiously, adverbreliquary, nounrepent, verbretreat, nounrevelation, nounrevivalism, nounrite, nounritual, nounsacred, adjectivesacrifice, nounsacrifice, verbsacrificial, adjectivesanctify, verbsanctity, nounsanctuary, nounsanctum, nounsatanism, nounscripture, nounsect, nounsectarian, adjectiveservice, nounshaman, nounShinto, nounshrine, nounsin, nounsin, verbsinful, adjectivesinner, nounsoul, nounspirit, nounspiritual, adjectivespiritualism, nounspirituality, nounSr, sun god, nounsuppliant, nounsupplicant, nounsupplication, nounSupreme Being, nounTao, nounTaoism, nountemple, nountenet, nounthanksgiving, nountheism, nountheo-, prefixtheocracy, nountheologian, nountheological college, nountheology, nountonsure, nountranscendental, adjectivetranscendental meditation, nountransmigration, noununbelief, noununbeliever, nounungodly, adjectiveunholy, adjectiveunorthodox, adjectivevisionary, nounvoodoo, nounvotary, nounworship, verbworship, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► small
1a place that is connected with a holy event or holy person, and that people visit to prayshrine of/to· 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.
his pilgrimage to the shrine of St John2a place that people visit and respect because it is connected with a famous person or event: Elvis’ home has become a shrine for his fans.shrine to The museum is a shrine to the great Spanish artist.