Meaning of temple | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A house of worship, especially:
2. A house of worship dedicated to a polytheistic faith.
3. A house of worship, especially: A house of worship dedicated to a polytheistic faith
4. 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.
5. A contrivance used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.
6. A male given name from Latin.
7. Any of the former chief temples to YHWH in Jerusalem, particularly Solomon's Temple.
   Judaism, historical
8. Synonym of synagogue, especially a non-Orthodox synagogue.
   Judaism
9. A house of worship dedicated to a polytheistic faith
10. Either of the sidepieces on a set of spectacles, extending backwards from the hinge toward the ears and, usually, turning down around them.
11. A device in a loom that keeps the cloth stretched to the correct width during weaving.
12. A female given name from Latin.
13. 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.
    UK
14. As opposed to an LDS meetinghouse, a church closed to non-Mormons and necessary for particular rituals.
    Mormonism
15. Synonym of synagogue, especially a non-Orthodox synagogue
16. A place of worship particularly associated with classical Greek architecture.
17. A surname.
18. A meeting house of the Oddfellows fraternity; its members.
19. As opposed to an LDS meetinghouse, a church closed to non-Mormons and necessary for particular rituals
20. a building in which people worship, usually as part of a non-Christian religion. a Greek/Hindu temple. tempel هَيْكَل، مَعبَد храм templo svatyně der Tempel tempel ναόςtemplo tempel معبد temppeli templeמקדש मंदिर hram, svetište templom kuil musteri tempio 神殿 사원 šventykla templis; svētnīca kuil tempeltempelświątyniatemplo templu храм svätyňa tempelj hram tempel วัด tapınak, mabet 壇，堂，廟宇，神殿 храм مندر، معبد đền, điện, miếu 坛，堂，庙宇，神殿
    usually
21. Places in the United Kingdom:
22. A suburb of Glasgow, Scotland (OS grid ref NS5469).
23. Any place regarded as holding a religious presence.
    figuratively
24. A meeting house of the Oddfellows fraternity; its members
25. either of the flat parts of the head at the side of the forehead. The stone hit him on the temple. slaap صَدْغ الإنْسان، أحَدُ جانِبَي الجَبين слепоочие fonte spánek die Schläfe tinding κρόταφοςsien meelekoht شقیقه ohimo tempeרקה कनपटी sljepoočica halánték pelipis gagnauga tempia こめかみ 관자놀이 smilkinys deniņi pelipis slaaptinningskrońfonte tâmplă висок spánok sence slepoočnica tinning ขมับ şakak 太陽穴 скроня کنپٹي thái dương 太阳穴
26. A village in Midlothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT3158).
27. Any place seen as an important centre for some activity.
    figuratively
28. sien, superficie lisa a cada lado de la parte lateral de la cabeza.
29. A small village in Bisham parish, Windsor and Maidenhead borough, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU8484).
30. Anything regarded as important or minutely cared for.
    figuratively
31. A building dedicated to religious ceremonies or worship.
32. A small village in Blisland parish, on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX1473).
33. A gesture wherein the forefingers are outstretched and touch pad to pad while the other fingers are clasped together.
    figuratively
34. Something regarded as having within it a divine presence.
35. Places in the United States:
36. A city in Carroll County and Haralson County, Georgia.
37. A building used for meetings by any of several fraternal orders, such as the Freemasons.
38. An unincorporated community in Crawford County, Indiana.
39. A building reserved for a highly valued function: the library, a temple of learning.
40. A town in Franklin County, Maine.
41. Temple Either of two groups of buildings in London, the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple, that house two of the four Inns of Court and that occupy the site of a complex used by the medieval Knights Templars.
42. An unincorporated community in Clare County, Michigan.
43. A town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.
44. A ghost town in Williams County, North Dakota.
45. A town in Cotton County, Oklahoma.
46. A census-designated place in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
47. A city in Bell County, Texas, named after Bernard Moore Temple of the Santa Fe Railway.
48. A neighbourhood of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

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Examples

“The temple of Zeus was very large.”

“As of October 1968 Lukang, which had a resident population of between 27,000 and 28,000 people, had 39 temples. It is my impression that Lukang has more temples than do most Taiwanese communities of equivalent size. By temple I mean a structure that houses an image, altar, and incense pot, and is freely accessible to the general public. In speaking of the 39 temples of Lukang, I am omitting the numerous small shrines to the unknown dead (Yu Ying Kung), buildings dedicated to ancestors rather than deities (two), Christian churches (four), incense-burner associations that keep their incense pot or image in private homes, and private shrines such as the domestic altars of tang-ki (spirit mediums) or the shrine of the now defunct Ch'üan-chou guild, found in the back room of a drugstore endowed with the guild property.[...]Lukang, seen in comparative perspective, has a lot of temples.”

“How often do you go to temple?”

“a temple of commerce; a temple of drinking and dining”

“My body is my temple.”

“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.”

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

“Then Iael Hebers wife, tooke a naile of the tent, and tooke an hammer in her hand, and went softly vnto him, and smote the naile into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: (for he was fast asleepe, and weary;) so he died.”

“Biblical criteria of sexual seductiveness include a white skin, black hair, or henna-dyed, scarlet lips, a prominent nose, rosy temples, long straight neck, firm breasts, round thighs, an erect posture.”

“A few days after the electrodes were implanted, Bennett welcomed visitors into his hospital room. His head is wrapped in bandages. A thick braid of wires hangs from his left temple.”

“The two known human AIDS viruses are evolving at a rapid rate equivalent to that of influenza viruses, said Dr. Temple F. Smith of Harvard's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, an author of a new report on the AIDS virus family tree.”

“Temple Dickson, D-Sweetwater, in a broad attack against cigarette companies, said the bill was needed so that taxpayers will not be paying for diseases caused by cigarettes.”

“Bud Abernathy was 10 years old and Temple Abernathy 6 when the brothers from Cross Roads, Okla., decided they wanted to take a trip to New York — by themselves, on horseback — to see ex-President Theodore Roosevelt.”

“With evident pleasure Temple Hauptfleisch presents the variety of theatrical forms to be found in the 'new' South Africa: […] He distinguishes eight categories of forms on the theatrical menu in South Africa: […]”

“In the 1840s, astronomer Temple Chevallier (1794-1873) experimented with placing a small metal disc in the focus of his telescope's eyepiece to produce an artificial eclipse that would make the protuberances visible on any clear day.”

“Temple Hayes, 35, a minister with the Church of Religious Science of West Palm Beach, told the survivors that support and a positive attitude are important in fighting any type of disease. "In today's times, it is essential that people come together and support each other with like-minded experiences," she said.”

“Dr. Temple Grandin, a university professor who has autism, has plenty of expertise and personal experience with autism, which gives her a unique perspective on the information available.”

“[…] including the 1925 silent film Peacock Feathers, based on the bestselling novel of the same name written by Temple Bailey (1885-1953).”

“Wildlife biologist Stanley Temple hypothesised that perhaps the dodo tree was dependent on its seeds passing through the digestive system of dodos in order to properly germinate and that the handful of individuals in the 1970s were the last remaining trees from seeds that passed through a dodo in the 1690s-1700s when they went extinct.”

“Up to his five-and-twentieth year he had been industrious and steady, had kept his terms in the Temple, and studied late and early.”

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