temple

noun temples

1. A house of worship dedicated to a polytheistic faith. The temple of Zeus was very large.
2. Judaism Synonym of synagogue, especially a non-Orthodox synagogue. How often do you go to temple?

   Similar: synagogue

3. Mormonism As opposed to an LDS meetinghouse, a church closed to non-Mormons and necessary for particular rituals.
4. A meeting house of the Oddfellows fraternity; its members.
5. figuratively Any place regarded as holding a religious presence.
6. figuratively Any place seen as an important centre for some activity. a temple of commerce; a temple of drinking and dining
7. figuratively Anything regarded as important or minutely cared for. My body is my temple.
8. figuratively A gesture wherein the forefingers are outstretched and touch pad to pad while the other fingers are clasped together. Again Abdullah listened intently, his eyes closed, his ten fingers forming a temple of his hands in front of him.

Similar: house of worship, place of worship, fane, temple, shrine

verb temples · templing · templed

1. transitive To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; to temple a god though the Heathen (in many places) Templed and adored this drunken God

noun temples

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. 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.
2. Either of the sidepieces on a set of spectacles, extending backwards from the hinge toward the ears and, usually, turning down around them.

Similar: fane, temple, shrine, house of worship

noun temples

1. A contrivance used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.

   Similar: template

Similar: fane, temple, shrine, house of worship

proper noun

1. A male given name from Latin. 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.
2. A female given name from Latin. 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 experience
3. A surname. 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 th
4. A suburb of Glasgow, Scotland (OS grid ref NS5469).
5. A village in Midlothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT3158).
6. A small village in Bisham parish, Windsor and Maidenhead borough, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU8484).
7. A small village in Blisland parish, on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX1473).
8. A city in Carroll County and Haralson County, Georgia.
9. An unincorporated community in Crawford County, Indiana.
10. A town in Franklin County, Maine.
11. An unincorporated community in Clare County, Michigan.
12. A town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.
13. A ghost town in Williams County, North Dakota.
14. A town in Cotton County, Oklahoma.
15. A census-designated place in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
16. A city in Bell County, Texas, named after Bernard Moore Temple of the Santa Fe Railway.
17. A neighbourhood of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

proper noun the Temple

1. Judaism, historical Any of the former chief temples to YHWH in Jerusalem, particularly Solomon's Temple.
2. UK 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. 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.