altar
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Meanings
Noun
1. altar (flat-topped structure used for religious rites)
2. stone that separates the firebox from the hearth in reverberatory furnaces
Examples7
The groom left the bride standing at the altar.
You promise me you won't leave me before the altar?
He left me standing at the altar.
The priest can sacrifice on the altar.
This shrine is sacred to Jupiter.
And I shall go up to the altar of God, to the God who filleth my youth with joy.