Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: sanctum
IPA transcription: [s'æŋktəm]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: holy_place, sanctum, holy
    Meaning: a sacred place of pilgrimage
  • Synonyms: sanctum, sanctum_sanctorum
    Meaning: a place of inviolable privacy; "he withdrew to his sanctum sanctorum, where the children could never go"
Usage examples
  • Burne had come into the editor's sanctum displaying the paper cheerfully.
  • "I am an editor, and this is my editorial sanctum." Not that I have ever seen an editor or a sanctum.
  • Being admitted to this sanctum, the visitors found the manager to be a small, puffy individual about forty-five years of age, with shrewd, beadlike black eyes and an insolent assumption of super-importance.