holy place

1. 1.

   a sacred place of pilgrimage

   Synonymssanctumholy

   Broadertopographic point

Questions about holy place

What does holy place mean?

holy place means "a sacred place of pilgrimage".

What is another word for holy place?

Close synonyms include sanctum, holy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is holy place a common word?

holy place is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.