Definition of しんでん
- (n) temple; sacred place; shrine; sanctuary; tabernacle
この神殿は建てるのに46年かかりました。
It has taken forty-six years to build this temple.
- (n) new rice field; newly developed rice field
- wasteland or marshland newly reclaimed as a rice field (Edo period)
- (n) field affiliated with a shrine (the tax-exempt proceeds of its harvest going to pay for shrine operations)