shrines
shrines is the plural of shrine.
shrines is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shrine.
Meaning of shrine
Noun
shrine (plural shrines)
- 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.
- Entering the tunnel, we pass a small shrine above our heads which contains a statue of St Barbara, the patron saint of tunnellers. It is traditional to have such shrines on every tunnel site.2022 March 23, Paul Bigland, “HS2 is just 'passing through'”, in RAIL, number 953, page 41
- A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint.
- A place or object hallowed from its history or associations.
- a shrine of art
Phrases with shrines
Words that rhyme with shrines
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- argentines
- bines
- bread lines
- breadlines
- brines
- carbines
- clementines
- co-signs
- coal mines
- coalmines
- colour outside the lines
- cosigns
- cosines
- defines
- designs
- dines
- fine lines
- fuel lines
- gas lines
- kines
- maligns
- mines
- misdefines
- ninety-nines
- number nines
- overdefines
- overlines
- overmines
- pines
- redefines
- refines
- relines
- serpentines
- shines
- signs
- sixty-nines
- spines
- sublines
- telephone lines
- turpentines
- undefines
- underdefines
- underlines
- undermines
- vines
- water lines
- waterlines
- whines
Questions about shrines
- What is shrines the plural of?
- Shrines is the plural of shrine.
Words near shrines in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: shrines (page history and authors); shrine (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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