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