sacred

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/ˈseɪkɹɪd/

adjective

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adjective
Connected with religion or considered holy and worthy of respect.
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adjective
Extra detail
Religious; relating to religion, or to the services of religion; not secular

Examples

If anything is sacred the human body is sacred.
Cows are sacred to Hindus.

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

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adjective

Extra meanings

Spiritual; concerned with metaphysics.
Characterized by solemn religious ceremony or religious use, especially, in a positive sense; consecrated, made holy.
Designated or exalted by a divine sanction; possessing the highest title to obedience, honor, reverence, or veneration; entitled to extreme reverence; venerable.

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a sacred day
a sacred place
sacred service

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In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea.
1797, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Kubla Khan: Or A Vision in a Dream”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer a...
In doing this I particularly instructed my informant to tell his tale as if he were relating it to his own people, and to use the same words that he would use if he were recounting similar tales to them when assembled in a sacred house.
1882, Edward Shortland, Maori Religion and Mythology
The cross is that high symbol of sacred service, the devotion of one's life to the welfare and salvation of one's fellows. The cross is not the symbol of the sacrifice of the innocent Son of God in the place of guilty sinners and in order to appease the wrath of an offended God, but it does stand forever, on earth and throughout a vast universe, as a sacred symbol of the good bestowing themselves upon the evil and thereby saving them by this very devotion of love.
1955, anonymous author, The Urantia Book: The Time of the Tomb
The sacred is the emotional force which connects the part to the whole; the profane or the secular is that which has been broken off from, or has fallen off, its emotional bond to the universe.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 102
Smit with the love of sacred song.
1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost

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Origin

adjective

From Middle English sacred, isacred, past participle of sacren, sakeren (“to make holy, hallow”), equivalent to sacre + -ed.

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adjective

The ancient temple was considered blank by the local worshippers because it housed a holy relic.