HOLY WATER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does holy water mean? 

• HOLY WATER (noun)
  The noun HOLY WATER has 1 sense:

1. water that has been blessed by a priest for use in symbolic purification

  Familiarity information: HOLY WATER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOLY WATER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Water that has been blessed by a priest for use in symbolic purification

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("holy water" is a kind of...):

H2O; water (binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent)

 Context examples 

“And bring with him a flask of holy water,” added the knight of Bohemia.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)