shrine

noun

A place of religious devotion or commemoration, such as.

noun

a place where devotion is paid to a deity or deities, as in Shinto.

noun

the tomb of a saint or other venerated person.

noun

a location where an important event in the life of a holy person is thought to have occurred.

noun

A container or receptacle for sacred relics; a reliquary.

noun

A site hallowed by association with a revered person or object or with an important event.

transitive verb

To enshrine.

To place in a shrine; enshrine; hence, figuratively, to deify or canonize.

To inclose in something suggestive of the great preciousness of what is inclosed: as, the jewel was shrined in a velvet casket.

noun

A box; an ark; a chest.