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say it: shrahyn
shrine is a noun and verb meaning "a place of worship hallowed by association with some sacred thing or person". It is pronounced /ˈʃɹaɪn/ — shrahyn. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a place of worship hallowed by association with some sacred thing or person
enclose in a shrine
“the saint's bones were enshrined in the cathedral”
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 shrine 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.