Usually means: Revered as holy and divine.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word sacred:

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

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sacred (comparative religion), sacred: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sacred: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Sacred (comparative religion), sacred: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. Sacred: Africa Glossary
  3. SACRED: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. sacred: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. sacred: Anthropological Terms
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See sacredly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Characterized by solemn religious ceremony or religious use, especially, in a positive sense; consecrated, made holy.
adjective:  Religious; relating to religion, or to the services of religion; not secular
adjective:  Spiritual; concerned with metaphysics.
adjective:  Designated or exalted by a divine sanction; possessing the highest title to obedience, honor, reverence, or veneration; entitled to extreme reverence; venerable.
adjective:  Not to be profaned or violated; inviolable.
adjective:  (followed by the preposition "to") Consecrated; dedicated; devoted
adjective:  (archaic) Solemnly devoted, in a bad sense, as to evil, vengeance, curse, or the like; accursed; baleful.

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