Usually means: Sacred place dedicated to worship.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word shrine:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. shrine: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shrine: Merriam-Webster
  3. shrine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shrine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shrine: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shrine: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shrine, shrine: Wordnik
  8. shrine: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. shrine: Wiktionary
  10. shrine: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. shrine: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. shrine: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. shrine: Dictionary.com
  14. shrine: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. shrine: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Shrine (disambiguation), Shrine (novel), Shrine (upcoming film), Shrine, The Shrine (Stargate Atlantis), The Shrine (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Shrine: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. shrine: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. shrine: Rhymezone
  20. shrine: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. shrine: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. shrine: FreeDictionary.org
  23. shrine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. shrine: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SHRINE, Shrine: ANIME AND MANGA GLOSSARY

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shrine: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shrine: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shrine: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See shrined as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A holy or sacred place dedicated to a specific deity, ancestor, hero, martyr, saint, or similar figure of awe and respect, at which said figure is venerated or worshipped.
noun:  A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint.
noun:  (figuratively) A place or object hallowed from its history or associations.
verb:  To enshrine; to place reverently, as if in a shrine.

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