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ancestral shrines

ancestral shrines is the plural of ancestral shrine.

Meaning of ancestral shrine

Noun

ancestral shrine (plural ancestral shrines)

  1. A temple dedicated to deified ancestors and progenitors of surname lineages or families in Chinese folk religion.

Questions about ancestral shrines

What is ancestral shrines the plural of?
Ancestral shrines is the plural of ancestral shrine.

Words near ancestral shrines in the dictionary

  1. ancestral name
  2. ancestral names
  3. Ancestral Puebloan
  4. Ancestral Puebloans
  5. ancestral shrine
  6. ancestral shrines
  7. ancestral temple
  8. ancestral temples
  9. ancestralism
  10. ancestralities
  11. ancestrality

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