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SANCTUM (sancta)

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Dictionary entry overview: What does sanctum mean?

• SANCTUM (noun)
The noun SANCTUM has 2 senses:

1. a place of inviolable privacy
2. a sacred place of pilgrimage

Familiarity information: SANCTUM used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SANCTUM (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A place of inviolable privacy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

sanctum; sanctum sanctorum

Context example:

he withdrew to his sanctum sanctorum, where the children could never go

Hypernyms ("sanctum" is a kind of...):

retreat (a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

A sacred place of pilgrimage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

holy; holy place; sanctum

Hypernyms ("sanctum" is a kind of...):

place; spot; topographic point (a point located with respect to surface features of some region)

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