Medvedev is inside Putin's inner sanctum.
Source: tatoeba (10753202)
Sanctum
//ˈsæŋktəm//
Synonyms for "sanctum" (28 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (6)
Strong matches (8)
Related words (14)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
4 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesderived
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
5 entriesTranslations
4 translations across 4 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἄδυτον noun (a place set apart)
Bulgarian
1 entries- светилище noun (a place set apart)
French
1 entries- sanctuaire noun (a place set apart)
Latin
1 entries- adytum noun (a place set apart)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Archaeologists found that the temple's outer wall postdates the inner sanctum by several centuries.
Source: tatoeba (13562094)
As he descended the stairs, two persons passed him, so remarkably dissimilar in their persons, dress, and carriage, that he could not forbear to look earnestly at them, as forming a criterion of the mixed character of company admissible in such places, and which was to him (with his preconceived notions of the inviolability of the female sanctum) an insuperable objection to such scenes of general resort.
Source: wiktionary
For myself, I had no need to make any change; I should not be called upon to quit my sanctum of the schoolroom; for a sanctum it was now become to me, – "a very pleasant refuge in time of trouble."
Source: wiktionary
Showing 4 of 6 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.