I. ˈtempəl noun
( -s )
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English & Old French; Old English templ tempel & Old French temple, from Latin templum space for observation marked out by the augur, consecrated place, shrine, temple; probably akin to Latin tempus period of time — more at temporal
1. : an edifice dedicated to the worship of a deity : an edifice held to be a residing place of a deity
2. often capitalized : one of three successive buildings for Hebrew worship in ancient Jerusalem built respectively by Solomon, Zerubbabel, and Herod the Great
3. : a usually large imposing edifice for public worship
4. : a place in which the divine presence specially resides
the temple of his body — Jn 2:21(Revised Standard Version)
you are God's temple — 1 Cor 3:16(Revised Standard Version)
5. : a building constructed, dedicated, and used for the administration of Mormon scared ordinances to and for the living and to the living in behalf of the dead (as baptism for the dead, the endowment, and sealing in marriage)
6. : synagogue
7.
a. : a local lodge of any of various fraternal orders or the building housing it
b. : a building housing labor organizations
8.
a. : a building devoted to a particular purpose of focusing on activity of a special kind
movie temples
financial temples
b. : the structure of thought, value, or belief that enshrines the spirit or essence of something
a belief that is the cornerstone of the temple of Christian faith
the temple of man's historic achievement
c. : the center or focus of something prized or valued
a temple of domesticity
II. transitive verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
: to build or devote a temple to : provide with a temple
III. noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin tempula, alteration (influenced by Latin -ula, feminine diminutive suffix) of Latin tempora, plural of tempus temple; probably akin to Latin tempus period of time — more at temporal
1. : the area on each side of the head of man and some other mammals back of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch, and in front of the ear
2. : one of the side supports of a pair of glasses jointed to the bows and passing on each side of the head
3. : the posterior or upper part of the gena of an insect
IV. noun
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Etymology: Middle English tempylle, from Middle French temple, probably from Latin templum temple (sanctuary), small timber
: a device (as a flat wooden bar with small pins at each end or nippers through which selvage must pass) in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely