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say it: SAY-kruhd
sacred is an adjective meaning "concerned with religion or religious purposes". It is pronounced /ˈseɪkɹəd/ — SAY-kruhd. It carries 5 recorded senses.
concerned with religion or religious purposes
“sacred texts”
“sacred rites”
“sacred music”
made or declared or believed to be holy; devoted to a deity or some religious ceremony or use
“a consecrated church”
“the sacred mosque”
“sacred elephants”
“sacred bread and wine”
“sanctified wine”
(often followed by `to') devoted exclusively to a single use or purpose or person
“a fund sacred to charity”
“a morning hour sacred to study”
“a private office sacred to the President”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sacred come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.