temple
IPA: tˈɛmpʌɫ
noun
- A house of worship, especially:
- A house of worship dedicated to a polytheistic faith.
- (Judaism) Synonym of synagogue, especially a non-Orthodox synagogue.
- (Mormonism) As opposed to an LDS meetinghouse, a church closed to non-Mormons and necessary for particular rituals.
- A meeting house of the Oddfellows fraternity; its members.
- (figurative) Any place regarded as holding a religious presence.
- (figurative) Any place seen as an important centre for some activity.
- (figurative) Anything regarded as important or minutely cared for.
- (figurative) A gesture wherein the forefingers are outstretched and touch pad to pad while the other fingers are clasped together.
- (anatomy) The slightly flatter region, on either side of the human head, behind the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch, and forward of the ear.
- (ophthalmology) Either of the sidepieces on a set of spectacles, extending backwards from the hinge toward the ears and, usually, turning down around them.
- (weaving) A contrivance used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.
- A male given name from Latin.
- A female given name from Latin.
- A surname.
- Places in the United Kingdom:
- A suburb of Glasgow, Scotland (OS grid ref NS5469).
- A village in Midlothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT3158).
- A small village in Bisham parish, Windsor and Maidenhead borough, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU8484).
- A village on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX1473).
- Places in the United States:
- A city in Carroll County and Haralson County, Georgia.
- An unincorporated community in Crawford County, Indiana.
- A town in Franklin County, Maine.
- An unincorporated community in Clare County, Michigan.
- A town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.
- A ghost town in Williams County, North Dakota.
- A town in Cotton County, Oklahoma.
- A census-designated place in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
- A city in Bell County, Texas.
- A neighbourhood of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
- (Judaism, Christianity, historical) Any of the former chief temples to YHWH in Jerusalem, particularly Solomon's Temple.
- Either of two of the Inns of Court in London (the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple), built on a site once occupied by the Knights Templar.
verb
- (transitive) To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; to temple a god
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Examples of "temple" in Sentences
- The architecture of the temple is the finest.
- The are welcomed by the headmaster of the temple.
- This temple is the most elaborately ornamented temple.
- The Christians spent the whole night in prayer in the converted temple.
- At the dedication of the temple, the Glory of the Lord fills the temple.
- The plat includes the lot for a church meetinghouse as well as the temple.
- The temple is also an exquisite exponent of the early temple architecture.
- The Bountiful Temple is the eighth temple constructed in the state of Utah.
- The Lingaraj temple stands majestically as the largest temple in Bhubaneswar.
- The temple is one of the largest Buddhist temples in the southern hemisphere.
- Somewhere in their temple is a wheel, a torus, which pulls strange matter into the world.
- First you should visit Wat Phrakeaw, this temple is awesome and full with beautiful Thai Architectures.
- Mr. M'Queen had often mentioned a curious piece of antiquity near this, which he called a temple of the Goddess ANAITIS.
- This temple is the center of interest in Kumbum and is the crowning pride of all the people of Amdo, who hold it to be particularly sacred.
- Not long after the first foundation of the city, they opened a sanctuary of refuge for all fugitives, which they called the temple of the god
- The Health Awareness Centre THAC, which she calls a temple, is the institute that she set up in 1989 by Vijaya Venkat and now run with daughter Anju Venkat.
- [Illustration: _The ruined temple of Prambanam_] [Illustration: _Bas-reliefs in the Siva Temple, Prambanam_] [Illustration: _The stairs leading to a Prambanam temple_]
- From far left to right, here are the other people in the picture: The man leaning on the temple is a Hindu priest who also maintains this site, along with Japani Baba.
- Then Ariston, seeing that I made oath of it, perceived that the matter was of the gods; and first the garlands were found to be from the hero-temple which stands by the outer door of the house, which they call the temple of
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