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altar
[ awl-ter ]
noun
- an elevated place or structure, as a mound or platform at which religious rites are performed or on which sacrifices are offered to gods, ancestors, etc.
- Ecclesiastical. communion table.
- Altar, Astronomy. the constellation Ara.
- (in a dry dock) a ledge for supporting the feet of shorings.
altar
/ ˈɔ˱ô³ÙÉ™ /
noun
- a raised place or structure where sacrifices are offered and religious rites performed
- (in Christian churches) the communion table
- a step in the wall of a dry dock upon which structures supporting a vessel can stand
- lead to the altar informal.to marry
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of altar1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of altar1
Idioms and Phrases
- lead to the altar, to marry:
After a five-year courtship, he led her to the altar.
Example Sentences
Every day for over a week, I knelt before a makeshift altar in my bedroom, anchored myself to my breath and performed a most Herculean feat: twice daily, hour-long meditations.
"A person who worships at the altar of Donald Trump will kneel before him, not stand up to him," he said, while assailing his main rival, Poilievre.
When her father numbs his pain with his wife’s prescription and sadly croons a song from when he was an altar boy, Piper can only roll her eyes and excuse herself from the room.
In front of the the altar, worshipers placed offerings of shoes, suitcases and photos of the disappeared.
Elated when Biscuit's severed head was discovered on an altar.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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