English Explanatory Dictionary

temple

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A house of worship, especially:
  2. A house of worship dedicated to a polytheistic faith.
  3. Synonym of synagogue, especially a non-Orthodox synagogue.
  4. As opposed to an LDS meetinghouse, a church closed to non-Mormons and necessary for particular rituals.
  5. A meeting house of the Oddfellows fraternity; its members.
  6. Any place regarded as holding a religious presence.
  7. Any place seen as an important centre for some activity.
  8. Anything regarded as important or minutely cared for.
  9. A gesture wherein the forefingers are outstretched and touch pad to pad while the other fingers are clasped together.
verb
  1. To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; to temple a god
noun
  1. 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.
  2. Either of the sidepieces on a set of spectacles, extending backwards from the hinge toward the ears and, usually, turning down around them.
noun
  1. A contrivance used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.
name
  1. A male given name from Latin.
  2. A female given name from Latin.
  3. A surname.
  4. Places in the United Kingdom:
  5. A suburb of Glasgow, Scotland (OS grid ref NS5469).
  6. A village in Midlothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT3158).
  7. A small village in Bisham parish, Windsor and Maidenhead borough, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU8484).
  8. A small village in Blisland parish, on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX1473).
  9. Places in the United States:
  10. A city in Carroll County and Haralson County, Georgia.
  11. An unincorporated community in Crawford County, Indiana.
  12. A town in Franklin County, Maine.
name
  1. Any of the former chief temples to YHWH in Jerusalem, particularly Solomon's Temple.
  2. 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.

Pronunciation

/ˈtɛm.pl̩/ tĕm'pl En-uk-temple.ogg En-us-temple.ogg

Word forms

temple temples templing templed the Temple

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.

Synonyms

house of worship place of worship fane temple shrine synagogue template

Related words

Templar :Category:en:Places of worship temporal

Derived words

ancestral temple antetemple fire temple Holy Temple lineage temple nontemple temple block temple dancer Temple Ewell Temple Fortune temple garment temple girl temple-goer temple-going Temple Guiting Temple Hirst Temple in Jerusalem templelike temple marriage Temple Meads Temple Mills Temple Mount temple name Temple of Heaven temple of immensity temple orange temple prostitute temple prostitution Temple Sowerby temple title temple tree frog temple viper temple fade temple ring Temple-Baraitser syndrome

Translations

Abkhaz: аны́хабаа Afrikaans: tempel Aghwan: 𐕊𐔰𐕜𐔰𐕙 Akkadian: nakkaptum Albanian: faltore Albanian: tempull Western Apache: kįh biyiʼ daʼchʼokąąhí Arabic: مَعْبَد Arabic: هَيْكَل Arabic: معبد Armenian: տաճար Armenian: մեհյան Armenian: բագին Assamese: দৌল Assamese: মন্দিৰ Asturian: templu Azerbaijani: məbəd Azerbaijani: ibadətxana Azerbaijani: ibadətgah Baba Malay: tempeh Bashkir: ғибәҙәтхана Basque: tenplu Belarusian: храм Bengali: মন্দির Bengali: মঠ Bhojpuri: 𑂧𑂢𑂹𑂠𑂱𑂪 Central Bikol: templo Bulgarian: храм Burmese: ဘုရား Burmese: ဝတ်ကျောင်း Burmese: နားထင် Catalan: temple Chinese Cantonese: 廟 /庙 Chinese Cantonese: 寺廟 /寺庙 Chinese Mandarin: 寺廟 /寺庙 Chinese Mandarin: 寺 Chinese Mandarin: 庙 Chinese Mandarin: 寺院 Chinese Mandarin: 神殿 Cornish: eglos teg Czech: chrám Danish: tempel Dutch: tempel Dzongkha: ལྷ་ཁང Egyptian: nTr-Hwt-t:pr Egyptian: r:Z1-pr*Z1:niwt Esperanto: templo Faroese: tempul Finnish: temppeli French: temple Galician: templo Georgian: ტაძარი German: Tempel Gothic: 𐌰𐌻𐌷𐍃 Gothic: 𐌲𐌿𐌳𐌷𐌿𐍃 Greek: ναός Ancient Greek: ναός Ancient Greek: ἱερόν Gujarati: મંદિર
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