"altar" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

altar sustantivo

sustantivo + altar
Kolokacji: 9
stone altar • side altar • marble altar • home altar • household altar • ...
altar + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 25
altar boy • altar rail • altar stone • altar server • altar table • ...
altar + verbo
Kolokacji: 6
altar stands • altar depicting • altar carves • altar dating • altar features • ...
verbo + altar
Kolokacji: 4
altar dedicated • altar is found • build an altar • altar is destroyed
adjetivo + altar
Kolokacji: 31
high altar • main altar • small altar • sacrificial altar • wooden altar • ...
(2) main, central
Kolokacji: 2
1. sacrificial altar = ołtarz ofiarny sacrificial altar
2. ancient altar = starożytny ołtarz ancient altar
3. old altar = stary ołtarz old altar
4. ancestral altar = rodowy ołtarz ancestral altar
  • Food is often placed at the ancestral altar as an offering to the dead.
  • As the stairs glide me up the hill, I stare into interiors lighted by the glow of red ancestral altars.
  • Ikegobo, like the royal ancestral altars, are settings for spectacular examples of Benin art.
  • It hung on a wall next to the ancestral altar, a charm to ward off evil spirits.
  • In the space between the jars, halfway up the wall, was the ancestral altar.
  • Altars of soil and grain were constructed alongside ancestral altars.
  • Therefore, the role of the objects on ancestral altars was to construct memory and affirm social identity.
  • I burn on the ancestral altar.
  • However, for reminiscene, two original parapets and the ancestral altar were preserved.
  • Local leadership would often destroy the ancestral altars of new members.
(5) makeshift, temporary
Kolokacji: 2
(6) gilded, golden, black
Kolokacji: 3
(8) ornate, elaborate
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + altar
Kolokacji: 14
behind the altar • before the altar • at the altar • on the altar • in front of the altar • ...

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