temple
Pronunciation
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From Middle English temple, from Old English templ, tempel, borrowed from Latinski templum (“shrine, temple, area for auspices”). Compare Old High German tempal (“temple”), also a borrowing from the Latin.
Noun
temple (plural temples)
- A house of worship, especially
- A house of worship dedicated to a polytheistic faith.
- The temple of Zeus was very large.
- (Judaism) Synonym of synagogue, especially a non-Orthodox synagogue.
- How often do you go to temple?
- (Mormonism) A church closed to non-Mormons and necessary for particular rituals.
- (Japan) A Buddhist house of worship, as opposed to a Shinto shrine.
- A house of worship dedicated to a polytheistic faith.
- A meeting house of the Oddfellows fraternity; its members.
- (figurative) Any place regarded as holding a religious presence.
- (figurative) Anything regarded as important or minutely cared for.
- My body is my temple.
- 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.
- (figurative) A gesture wherein the forefingers are outstretched and touch pad to pad while the other fingers are clasped together.
- 2010, James LePore, A World I Never Made, strana 251:
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Synonyms
- (house of worship): house of worship, place of worship
Hyponyms
- (house of worship): church (Christian, usually distinguished); mosque (Muslim, usually distinguished); synagogue (Jewish); athenaeum (dedicated to Athena), Mithraeum (dedicated to Mithras); Iseum, Iseion (dedicated to Isis); serapeum (dedicated to Serapis); hecatompedon (a temple of 100 feet length or square)
Coordinate terms
- (house of worship): shrine (smaller)
- (exclusive Mormon house of worship): meeting house, church (non-exclusive)
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
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Verb
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- (transitive) To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; to temple a god
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Etymology 2
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From Middle English temple, borrowed from Old French temple, from Vulgar Latin *temp(u)la, from Latinski tempora (“the temples”), plural of tempus (“temple, head, face”). See temporal bone.
Noun
temple (plural temples)
- (anatomy) The slightly flatter region, on either side of the human head, behind of 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.
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Etymology 3
Borrowed from Latinski templum (“a small timber, a purlin”); compare templet and template.
Noun
temple (plural temples)
- (weaving) A contrivance used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.
Translations
Further reading
- temple in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- temple in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Anagrams
- pelmet (alphagram eelmpt)
Catalan
Etymology
Noun
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- temple (building)
Derived terms
French
Etymology
From Old French temple, borrowed from Latinski templum, from Proto-Indo-European *t(e)mp-lo-s, from the root *temp- (“to stretch, string”).
Pronunciation
Noun
temple m (plural temples)
- temple (for worship)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “temple” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Etymology 1
From Vulgar Latin *temp(u)la, from Latinski tempora, plural of tempus.
Noun
temple m (oblique plural temples, nominative singular temples, nominative plural temple)
Descendants
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Latinski templum.
Noun
temple m (oblique plural temples, nominative singular temples, nominative plural temple)
- temple (building where religious services take place)
Descendants
- Francuski: temple
Spanish
Etymology
Regressively derived from the verb templar.
Noun
temple m (plural temples)
- mood; humour (of a person)
- mettle; courage; spunk
- tempering
- temperature
- (music) tuning
- (bullfighting) A move of the cape before a charge
Verb
temple