Temple

Noun

 * 1) A building for worship.
 * "A temple of Zeus."
 * 1)  The Jewish temple of Jerusalem, first built by Solomon.
 * , Sometimes used to describe a protestant church in French-speaking nations.
 * 1) Something regarded as holding religious presence.
 * 2) Something of importance; something attended to.
 * My body is my temple.
 * 1)  a body
 * 2) * 1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 1, scene 3, lines 11–14:
 * For nature crescent does not grow alone
 * In thews and bulks, but as this temple waxes,
 * The inward service of the mind and soul
 * Grows wide withal.

Synonyms

 * house of worship

Related terms

 * temporal
 * Templar

Noun

 * 1)  The slightly flatter region, on either side of the head, back of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch and in front of the ear.
 * 2)  Either of the sidepieces on a set of spectacles, extending backwards from the hinge toward the ears and, usually, turning down around them.

Related terms

 * temporal

Adjectives for Temple
druidical; blushing; foreign; mystical; unworthy; versatile;  abolished;  graceful; wind-swept; throbbing; soniferous; burning; shattered; hairy; pagan; proud; pillared; wooden; gorgeous; projecting; ancient; holy; arching; magnificent; veined; heated; solemn; sumptuous; shattered; battered; numerous (pi); anointed; airy; glass; monumental.

Verbs for Temple
attend—; banish from—; beseech in—; blas¬pheme—; bow in—; commune in—; convert into—; dedicate—; defile—; degrade—; desecrate—; design—; enshrine in—; erect —; expel from—; found—; ordain—; protingly; irresistibly; unduly; incestuously; mystically; maddeningly; goadingly.

Thesaurus
bank, beam, border, broadside, cathedral, chapel, cheek, chop, church, coast, dewal, fane, flank, girja, hand, handedness, haunch, hip, holy place, house of God, house of worship, jowl, kiack, laterality, many-sidedness, masjid, mosque, multilaterality, pagoda, pantheon, place of worship, planking, profile, quarter, sanctuary, shore, shrine, shul, side, siding, synagogue, tabernacle, unilaterality

Pronunciation

 * tĕm'p(ə)l, /ˈtemp(ə)l/, /"temp(@)l/

Etymology 1
From temple: <  templ: <  templum:.

Etymology 2
From temple: <  temple: <  tempora:, plural of tempus: (see "temporal bone")

Noun

 * Albanian: tempull
 * Arabic: معبد, هيكل
 * Armenian: տաճար
 * Azeri: məbəd
 * Basque: tenplu
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: temple
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 寺廟, 寺庙,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ტაძარი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: મંદિર
 * Hawaiian: heiau
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 神殿, Buddhist temple: 堂塔, 寺, 寺院,
 * Kannada: ದೇವಸ್ಥಾನ
 * Kazakh: ғыйбадатһана
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: 절, 사찰
 * Kurdish: ku
 * Kurdish: ku


 * Kyrgyz: ибадаткана
 * Lao: lo
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: templis
 * Lithuanian: šventykla
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: അംപലം
 * Maltese: tempju, maqdes
 * Mongolian: сүм
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Old English:
 * Persian: کده
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani:
 * Romanian: templu
 * Russian: храм, место богослужения
 * Sanskrit: देवालयः
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: храм, богомоља
 * Roman: hram, bogomolja
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: hekalu
 * Swedish: tempel
 * Tamil: கோயில்
 * Telugu: కోవెల, ఆలయము, గుడి
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu: مندر, معبد
 * Uyghur: يباداتھانا, تاۈينيديغان چاي
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: teml
 * Yiddish: שול


 * Finnish: temppeli


 * Finnish: temppeli


 * : pura, kuil
 * : templo
 * : aedes, templum
 * : గుడి

Noun

 * Armenian: քունք
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 颞颥
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: საფეთქელი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 蟀谷 or 顳顬
 * Korean: 관자놀이
 * Macedonian: слепоочница
 * Maltese: ngħas


 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Old English:
 * Old Norse:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sallands:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: слепоочница
 * Roman: slepoočnica
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil: நெற்றி
 * Turkish: şakak
 * !Xóõ: ʘqʻûbe tshôe


 * Finnish: sanka, silmälasinsanka

Anagrams

 * pelmet

Etymology
tempus:.

Descendants

 * English:

Noun

 * 1)  for worship

Etymology
tempus:.

Descendants

 * English:
 * French: