Usually means: Table for religious or spiritual rituals.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. altar: Merriam-Webster
  2. altar: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. altar: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. altar: Collins English Dictionary
  5. altar: Vocabulary.com
  6. Altar, altar: Wordnik
  7. altar: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. altar: Wiktionary
  9. altar: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. altar: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. altar: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Altar, altar: Dictionary.com
  13. altar: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. altar: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Altar: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. altar: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. altar: Rhymezone
  19. Altar (m), altar, altar: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. altar: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. altar: FreeDictionary.org
  22. altar: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. altar: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. altar: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. altar: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  26. altar: Merriam-Webster

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. altar: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Glossary: Gothic Art and Architecture (No longer online)
  3. altar: Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture
  4. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Altar: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. altar: Idioms
  4. A Dictionary Of WitchCraft (No longer online)

Religion (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Altar: Easton Bible
  2. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  3. Altar (in Liturgy): Catholic Encyclopedia
  4. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  5. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Altar: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  7. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. altar: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. altar: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. altar: Glossary of Medieval Architecture
  2. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites.
noun:  (informal) A raised area around an altar in a church; the sanctuary.
noun:  (figurative) Any (real or notional) place where something is worshipped or sacrificed to.

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