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* enPR: tĕm'p(ə)l, IPA(key): /ˈtɛmp(ə)l/
* Rhymes: -ɛmpəl
- enPR: tĕm'p(ə)l, IPA(key): /ˈtɛmp(ə)l/
- Rhymes: -ɛmpəl
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From Middle English _temple_, from Old English _templ_, from Latin _templum_ (“shrine, temple, area for auspices”).
NOUN
TEMPLE (_plural_ TEMPLES)
* A building for worship.
_The TEMPLE of Zeus was very large._
* (often capitalized) The Jewish temple of Jerusalem, first built by Solomon.
* Something regarded as holding religious presence.
* Something of importance; something attended to.
_My body is my temple._
* (obsolete) A body.
* 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.
* Hands held together with forefingers outstretched and touching pad to pad, with the rest of the fingers clasped.
SYNONYMS
* house of worship
DERIVED TERMS
* templelike
* Temple Mount
* Temple of Heaven
* temple of immensity
RELATED TERMS
* temporal
* Templar
TRANSLATIONS
VERB
TEMPLE (_third-person singular simple present_ TEMPLES, _present participle_ TEMPLING, _simple past and past participle_ TEMPLED)
* (transitive) To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to.
_to TEMPLE a god_
(Can we find and add a quotation of Feltham to this entry?)
From Middle English temple, from Old English templ, from Latin templum (“shrine, temple, area for auspices”).
temple (plural temples)
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A building for worship.
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The temple of Zeus was very large.
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(often capitalized) The
Jewish temple of Jerusalem, first built by Solomon.
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Something regarded as holding religious presence.
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Something of importance; something attended to.
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My body is my temple.
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(obsolete) A body.
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Hands held together with forefingers outstretched and touching pad to pad, with the rest of the fingers clasped.
temple (third-person
singular simple present temples, present participle templing, simple past and past participle templed)
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(transitive) To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to.
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to temple a god
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(Can we find and add a quotation of Feltham to this entry?)
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From Middle English _temple_, from Old French _temple_, from Latin _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 head, back of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch and in front 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.
RELATED TERMS
* temporal
TRANSLATIONS
From Middle English temple, from Old French temple, from Latin tempora (“the temples”), plural of tempus (“temple, head, face”) (see "temporal bone")
temple (plural temples)
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(anatomy) The slightly flatter region, on either side of the head, back of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch and in front of the ear.
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(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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* temple in _Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary_, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
* temple in _The Century Dictionary_, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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* pelmet
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* IPA(key): /tɑ̃pl/
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* “temple” in _le Trésor de la langue française informatisé_ (_The Digitized Treasury of the French Language_).
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TEMPLE
temple
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