sanctuary
Substantivhäufig in Dialogen
- Vereinigtes Königreich//ˈsæŋktjʊəɹi//
- Vereinigtes Königreich//ˈsæŋkt͡ʃʊəɹi//
- Vereinigte Staaten//ˈsæŋkt͡ʃuˌɛɹi//
A place of safety, refuge, or protection.
Substantiv
- 1
A place of safety, refuge, or protection.
My car is a sanctuary, where none can disturb me except for people who cut me off.
She saw him, even as she had last gazed upon him, pale, cold, and awful; but still he was there. The coffin was to her like a shrine; all that she held most dear and most precious was within its dark and silent sanctuary.
‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘An Alsatia like the ancient one behind the Strand, or the Saffron Hill before the First World War.[…]’
In January, federal agents indicted 16 sanctuary leaders from Texas and Arizona on charges of helping to harbor illegal immigrants from Central America.
- 2
An area set aside for protection.
The bird sanctuary has strict restrictions on visitors so the birds aren't disturbed.
- 3
A state of being protected, asylum.
The government granted sanctuary to the defector, protecting him from his former government.
- 4
The consecrated (or sacred) area of a church or temple around its tabernacle or altar.
Near-synonym: chancel (broadly synonymous)
Herkunft
From Middle English seyntuarie, from Old French saintuaire, from Late Latin sanctuarium (“a sacred place, a shrine, a private cabinet, in Medieval Latin also temple, church, churchyard, cemetery, right of asylum”), from Latin sanctus (“holy, sacred”); see saint.
Formen
- Plural
- sanctuaries
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