Temple

Quick meaning: Temple is a noun meaning A house of worship, especially:.

Meaning

A house of worship, especially:.

More Meanings

1. A meeting house of the Oddfellows fraternity; its members.
2. (figurative) Any place regarded as holding a religious presence.
3. (figurative) Any place seen as an important centre for some activity.
4. (figurative) Anything regarded as important or minutely cared for.
5. (figurative) A gesture wherein the forefingers are outstretched and touch pad to pad while the other fingers are clasped together.
6. (transitive) To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; to temple a god
7. (anatomy) 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.

Example Sentences

My body is my temple.

a temple of commerce; a temple of drinking and dining

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

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

Word Forms

• temples
• templing
• templed

Synonyms for temple

Depending on context, synonyms include fane, shrine, template.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pantheon, synagogue, shrine, monastery, church, abbey.

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