Definitions for Temple
ˈtɛm pəltem·ple

Princeton's WordNet(3.33 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. templenoun

   place of worship consisting of an edifice for the worship of a deity

2. templenoun

   the flat area on either side of the forehead

   "the veins in his temple throbbed"

3. templenoun

   an edifice devoted to special or exalted purposes

4. synagogue, temple, tabernaclenoun

   (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. templenoun

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

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1. Templenoun

   Etymology: temple, Fr. templum, Lat.

   1. A place appropriated to acts of religion.

   The honour’d gods
   Throng our large temples with the shews of peace. William Shakespeare.

   Here we have no temple but the wood, no assembly but hornbeasts. William Shakespeare, As you like it.

   Most sacrilegious murther hath broke ope
   The lord’s anointed temple, and stole thence
   The life o’ th’ building. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   This guest of Summer,
   The temple haunting martlet. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   2. [ Tempora, Latin.]The upper part of the sides of the head where the pulse is felt.

   Her sunny locks
   Hang on her temples like a golden fleece. William Shakespeare.

   We may apply intercipients of mastich upon the temples; frontals also may be applied. Richard Wiseman, Surgery.

   To procure sleep, he uses the scratching of the temples and ears; that even mollifies wild beasts. Arbuthnot.

   The weapon enter’d close above his ear,
   Cold through his temples glides the whizzing spear. Alexander Pope.

Webster Dictionary(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Templenoun

   a contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely

2. Templenoun

   the space, on either side of the head, back of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch and in front of the ear

3. Templenoun

   one of the side bars of a pair of spectacles, jointed to the bows, and passing one on either side of the head to hold the spectacles in place

4. Templenoun

   a place or edifice dedicated to the worship of some deity; as, the temple of Jupiter at Athens, or of Juggernaut in India

5. Templenoun

   the edifice erected at Jerusalem for the worship of Jehovah

6. Templenoun

   hence, among Christians, an edifice erected as a place of public worship; a church

7. Templenoun

   fig.: Any place in which the divine presence specially resides

8. Templeverb

   to build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; as, to temple a god

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1. Temple

   A temple is a structure reserved for religious or spiritual activities, such as prayer and sacrifice, or analogous rites. A templum constituted a sacred precinct as defined by a priest, or augur. It has the same root as the word "template," a plan in preparation of the building that was marked out on the ground by the augur. Templa also became associated with the dwelling places of a god or gods. Despite the specific set of meanings associated with the religion of the ancient Rome, the word has now become quite widely used to describe a house of worship for any number of religions and is even used for time periods prior to the Romans.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Temple

   tem′pl, n. an edifice erected to a deity or for religious purposes: a place of worship: in London, two inns of court, once occupied by the Knights Templars. [L. templum, prob. for temulum, a space marked out for religious purposes, dim. of tempus, a piece cut off.]

2. Temple

   tem′pl, n. the flat portion of either side of the head above the cheekbone.—adj. Tem′poral, pertaining to the temples. [O. Fr. temple—L. tempora, the temples, pl. of tempus, time.]

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1. temple

   A place other than a bed, where one takes one's shoes off. (There are Jewish temples, pagan temples and money temples, but no Christian temples: the latter has no need of them, because Christian religion is the only one in the world in which its believers and followers practise exactly what its Founder taught. Each Christian may point to himself and say proudly, "Ecce Temple," hence, etc., etc., etc.)

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1. temple

   The temple symbol -- In this Symbols.com article you will learn about the meaning of the temple symbol and its characteristic.

Etymology and Origins(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Temple

   The seat of the “Knights Templars” in this country down to the time of the dissolution of their Order by Edward II. in 1313.

Mythology(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Temple

   An edifice erected to the honor of a god or goddess in which the sacrifices were offered.

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1. Temple

   the posterior part of the gena; behind, before or beneath the eye.

Matched Categories

1. • Judaism
   • Building
   • Feature
   • Place Of Worship

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Temple' in Nouns Frequency: #1793

Anagrams for Temple »

1. pelmet

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Temple in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Temple in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of Temple in a Sentence

1. Robert Ingersoll, On Isadora Duncan:

   Under the influence of art the walls expand, the roof rises, and it becomes a temple.

2. Robert Vallieres:

   A big beam came flying off of a truck and caught me in the temple area. I woke up in a medical hospital somewhere, a few days later, they sent me back to my unit and then I became really ill with an aneurysm on the verge of bursting in my heart.

3. Van Vilsteren:

   We suspect that for the first 200 years, the mummy was exposed and worshiped in a Buddhist temple in China... only in the 14th century did they do all the work to transform it into a nice statue.

4. Marcus Tullius Cicero:

   . . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky. . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed....

5. Adisorn Nuchdamrong:

   We have a court warrant this time, unlike previous times, when we only asked for the temple's cooperation, which did not work, international pressure concerning illegal wildlife trafficking is also part of why we're acting now.

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