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temple

noun
/ˈtɛm.pl̩/

Etymology

From Middle English temple, from Old English templ, tempel, borrowed from Latin templum (“shrine, temple, area for auspices”). Compare Old High German tempal (“temple”), also a borrowing from the Latin.

  1. derived from templum
  2. inherited from templ
  3. inherited from temple

Definitions

  1. A house of worship, especially

    A house of worship, especially:

    • The temple of Zeus was very large.

  2. A meeting house of the Oddfellows fraternity

    A meeting house of the Oddfellows fraternity; its members.

  3. Any place regarded as holding a religious presence.

  4. ›+ 15 more definitions

    1. Any place seen as an important centre for some activity.

      • a temple of commerce; a temple of drinking and dining

    2. Anything regarded as important or minutely cared for.

      • My body is my temple.
      • 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.

    3. A gesture wherein the forefingers are outstretched and touch pad to pad while the other…

      A gesture wherein the forefingers are outstretched and touch pad to pad while the other fingers are clasped together.

      • Again Abdullah listened intently, his eyes closed, his ten fingers forming a temple of his hands in front of him.

    4. To build a temple for

      To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; to temple a god

      • though the Heathen (in many places) Templed and adored this drunken God

    5. The slightly flatter region, on either side of the head of a vertebrate, including a…

      The slightly flatter region, on either side of the head of a vertebrate, including a human, behind the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch, and forward of the ear.

      • Then Iael Hebers wife, tooke a naile of the tent, and tooke an hammer in her hand, and went softly vnto him, and smote the naile into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: (for he was fast asleepe, and weary;) so he died.
      • Biblical criteria of sexual seductiveness include a white skin, black hair, or henna-dyed, scarlet lips, a prominent nose, rosy temples, long straight neck, firm breasts, round thighs, an erect posture.
      • A few days after the electrodes were implanted, Bennett welcomed visitors into his hospital room. His head is wrapped in bandages. A thick braid of wires hangs from his left temple.

    6. Either of the sidepieces on a set of spectacles, extending backwards from the hinge…

      Either of the sidepieces on a set of spectacles, extending backwards from the hinge toward the ears and, usually, turning down around them.

    7. A contrivance used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.

    8. A male given name from Latin.

      • The two known human AIDS viruses are evolving at a rapid rate equivalent to that of influenza viruses, said Dr. Temple F. Smith of Harvard's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, an author of a new report on the AIDS virus family tree.
      • Temple Dickson, D-Sweetwater, in a broad attack against cigarette companies, said the bill was needed so that taxpayers will not be paying for diseases caused by cigarettes.
      • Bud Abernathy was 10 years old and Temple Abernathy 6 when the brothers from Cross Roads, Okla., decided they wanted to take a trip to New York — by themselves, on horseback — to see ex-President Theodore Roosevelt.

    9. A female given name from Latin.

      • Dr. Temple Grandin, a university professor who has autism, has plenty of expertise and personal experience with autism, which gives her a unique perspective on the information available.
      • […] including the 1925 silent film Peacock Feathers, based on the bestselling novel of the same name written by Temple Bailey (1885-1953).

    10. A surname.

    11. Places in the United Kingdom

      Places in the United Kingdom:

    12. Places in the United States

      Places in the United States:

    13. A neighbourhood of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

    14. Any of the former chief temples to YHWH in Jerusalem, particularly Solomon's Temple.

    15. Either of two of the Inns of Court in London (the Inner Temple and the Middle 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.

      • Up to his five-and-twentieth year he had been industrious and steady, had kept his terms in the Temple, and studied late and early.

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Derived

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