sanctum

Noun

Meaning

A sacred place; hence, a place of retreat; a room reserved for personal use; as, an editor's sanctum.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

holy place holy church chapel temple haven reliquary retreat refuge shrine sanctuary asylum sanctum sanctorum holy of holies inner sanctum
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Antonyms

out attack risk communication exposure danger
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Hypernyms

place spot retreat topographic point

Phrases with the word

guaiacum sanctum l. guaiacum sanctum mill.

Derivatives

Sancta

Examples

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach. Carl Jung

No solemn sanctimonious face I pull, Nor think I'm pious when I'm only bilious; Nor study in my sanctum supercilious, To frame a Sabbath Bill or forge a Bull. Thomas Hood

When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature. Henry David Thoreau

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

A handful of commercial haunted houses in the Valley — Sanctum of Horror and The Crypt/The Vault in Mesa — are taking the year off for pandemic reasons. Source: Internet

Foekema (1996), p29 The right to left sequence is the same direction taken by the devotees in their ritual circumambulation as they wind inward toward the inner sanctum. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

sanctuary sanctuary city sanctuarylike sanctum sanctorum sanctum santorum sanctus