HOW TO PRONOUNCE
altar
/ˈɔl.tɚ/
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What does altar mean?
noun
- A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites.
- (informal) A raised area around an altar in a church; the sanctuary.
- (figuratively) Any (real or notional) place where something is worshipped or sacrificed to.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɔl.tɚ/
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It was a sort of worship in two steps, with the grand altar for the colonel and the lesser one for Thénardier.
The altar was on the hither side of the screen, and between it and the entrance were disposed several benches and chairs.
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After the congregation was dismissed, these descended from the gallery, and took a seat against the wall most distant from the altar.
This he danced round the Ceratonian Altar, so called from its consisting of horns taken from the left side of the head.
Tell them that you have extinguished one of the brightest and purest lights that ever burned at the altar of civil liberty.