noun
writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity
• Syn: ↑sacred text, ↑sacred writing, ↑religious writing
• Hypernyms: ↑writing, ↑written material, ↑piece of writing
• Hyponyms:
↑scripture, ↑sacred scripture, ↑Bible, ↑Christian Bible, ↑Book, ↑Good Book, ↑Holy Scripture, ↑Holy Writ, ↑Scripture, ↑Word of God, ↑Word, ↑Paralipomenon, ↑Testament, ↑Gospel, ↑Gospels, ↑evangel, ↑Synoptic Gospels, ↑Synoptics, ↑prayer, ↑service book, ↑Apocrypha, ↑sapiential book, ↑wisdom book, ↑wisdom literature, ↑Pseudepigrapha, ↑Talmudic literature, ↑Vedic literature, ↑Veda, ↑mantra, ↑psalm
• Instance Hyponyms:
↑Adi Granth, ↑Granth, ↑Granth Sahib, ↑Avesta, ↑Zend-Avesta, ↑Bhagavad-Gita, ↑Bhagavadgita, ↑Gita, ↑Mahabharata, ↑Mahabharatam, ↑Mahabharatum, ↑Torah, ↑Pentateuch, ↑Laws, ↑Tanakh, ↑Tanach, ↑Hebrew Scripture, ↑Prophets, ↑Nebiim, ↑Hagiographa, ↑Ketubim, ↑Writings, ↑Book of Mormon, ↑Koran, ↑Quran, ↑al-Qur'an, ↑Book, ↑Gemara, ↑Mishna, ↑Mishnah, ↑Upanishad, ↑Psalm
Useful english dictionary. 2012.