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  2. Sanctuary - Wikipedia

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    Sanctuary is a word derived from the Latin sanctuarium, which is, like most words ending in -arium, a container for keeping something in—in this case holy things or perhaps cherished people (sanctae / sancti). The meaning was extended to places of holiness or safety.

  3. Heaven - Wikipedia

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    Heaven is a key concept in Chinese mythology, philosophies, and religions, and is on one end of the spectrum a synonym of Shangdi ("Supreme Deity") and on the other naturalistic end, a synonym for nature and the sky. The Chinese term for "heaven", Tian (天), derives from the name of the supreme deity of the Zhou dynasty.

  4. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...

  5. Haven - Wikipedia

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    Haven (fictional town), in the TV series Haven; Haven, in the fantasy role-playing game Earthdawn; Haven, in the video game Myst IV: Revelation; Haven, in the role-playing game Shatterzone; Haven, associated with the Alliance (DC Comics) Haven, in the War World book series; Haven, in Stephen King's novel The Tommyknockers

  6. Haven (graph theory) - Wikipedia

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    As an example, let G be a nine-vertex grid graph. Define a haven of order 4 in G, mapping each set X of three or fewer vertices to an X-flap β(X), as follows: If there is a unique X-flap that is larger than any of the other X-flaps, let β(X) be that unique large X-flap. Otherwise, choose β(X) arbitrarily to be any X-flap.

  7. Temenos - Wikipedia

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    A large example of a Bronze Age Minoan temenos is at the Juktas Sanctuary of the palace of Knossos on ancient Crete in present-day Greece, the temple having a massive northern temenos. [10] Another example is at Olympia, the temenos of Zeus. There were temene dedicated to Apollo in many places, as he was a patron god of settlers.

  8. Heaven in Christianity - Wikipedia

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    For example, Marian apparitions that depict Mary as the eschatological image of the church: shining like the Sun, wearing a beautiful crown, etc. Another example is saints visiting heaven. Some visits describe heaven in material or physical terms, such as the vision of Anna Schäffer: While I was praying, I was enraptured from the world.

  9. Synonym (taxonomy) - Wikipedia

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    A homotypic synonym need not share an epithet or name with the correct name; what matters is that it shares the type. For example, the name Taraxacum officinale for a species of dandelion has the same type as Leontodon taraxacum L. The latter is a homotypic synonym of Taraxacum officinale F.H.Wigg.