RELIQUARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reliquary mean? 

• RELIQUARY (noun)
  The noun RELIQUARY has 1 sense:

1. a container where religious relics are stored or displayed (especially relics of saints)

  Familiarity information: RELIQUARY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELIQUARY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A container where religious relics are stored or displayed (especially relics of saints)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

container (any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another))