sanctuary
意味
- (教会・寺院など)神聖な場所,聖所
- (教会・寺院などで)最も神聖な場所,聖域(教会堂の内陣,ユダヤ教会の至聖所など)
- (犯罪者の)隠れ場,(一般に)安らかな場所
- 保護,避難
- (鳥・獣の)保護区,禁猟地
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English seyntuarie, from Old French saintuaire, from Late Latin sanctuarium (“a sacred place, a shrine, a private cabinet, in Medieval Latin also temple, church, churchyard, cemetery, right of asylum”), from Latin sanctus (“holy, sacred”); see saint.