Temple

Temple

A city of central Texas south of Fort Worth. It is a processing and manufacturing center. Population: 54,400.

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tem·ple ¹  (tmpl)

n.

1.

a. A building dedicated to religious ceremonies or worship.

b. Temple Either of two successive buildings in ancient Jerusalem serving as the primary center for Jewish worship.

c. Judaism A synagogue, especially of a Reform congregation.

d. Mormon Church A building in which the sacred ordinances are administered.

2. Something regarded as having within it a divine presence.

3. A building used for meetings by any of several fraternal orders, especially the Knights Templars.

4. A building reserved for a highly valued function: the library, a temple of learning.

5. 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 the medieval Knights Templars establishment.

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[Middle English, from Old English tempel, from Latin templum; see tem- in Indo-European roots.]

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tem·ple ²  (tmpl)

n.

1. The flat region on either side of the forehead.

2. Either of the sidepieces of a frame for eyeglasses that extends along the temple and over the ear.

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[Middle English, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *tempula, from Latin tempora, pl. of tempus, temple of the head.]

Word History: Words that are identical in form do not always derive from the same source, and when they have different sources they are usually considered different words. The temple that refers to a place of worship, for example, does not have the same origin as the temple that refers to a side of the forehead. The temple where one worships comes from Latin templum, itself derived from the Indo-European root *tem-, "to cut, divide." Latin templum probably referred originally to the fact that temples were on sacred ground that was "divided" or separated from ordinary ground. The temple of the head comes from the Latin word tempus, "temple of the head." Its origin is not certain; some have thought it to be a special use of the homonymous word tempus "time" as a translation of Greek kairios, "(proper) time, opportunity, vital spot," but there is no hard evidence for this. What is known, and not uninteresting in itself, is how tempus eventually became temple in English. In Latin, the plural, tempora, was more frequently used than the singular tempus (it being more common to talk about paired body parts together rather than singly). There was a large class of Latin nouns ending in -a in the singular, and this led to a reinterpretation of tempora as a singular in later Latin, where it was also altered to *tempula. This became temple in Old French, whence English temple (of the head) was borrowed, first appearing in 1310. The classical Latin form survives in the English adjective temporal (as in temporal bone or temporal muscle).

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tem·ple ³  (tmpl)

n.

A device in a loom that keeps the cloth stretched to the correct width during weaving.

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[Middle English tempille, from Old French temple, possibly from Latin templum, small piece of timber; see tem- in Indo-European roots.]

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temple ¹

Noun

a building or place used for the worship of a god or gods [Latin templum]

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temple ²

Noun

the region on each side of the head in front of the ear and above the cheek bone [Latin tempus]

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Temple a local group of Oddfellows.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	temple - place of worship consisting of an edifice for the worship of a deity joss house - a Chinese temple or shrine for idol worship pagoda - an Asian temple; usually a pyramidal tower with an upward curving roof pantheon - (antiquity) a temple to all the gods house of God, house of prayer, house of worship, place of worship - any building where congregations gather for prayer
	2.	temple - the flat area on either side of the forehead; "the veins in his temple throbbed" head, caput - the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains; "he stuck his head out the window" feature, lineament - the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin; "an expression of pleasure crossed his features"; "his lineaments were very regular"
	3.	temple - an edifice devoted to special or exalted purposes building, edifice - a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice" pillar, column - (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure entablature - (architecture) the structure consisting of the part of a classical temple above the columns between a capital and the roof ziggurat, zikkurat, zikurat - a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
	4.	temple - (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation synagogue, tabernacle house of God, house of prayer, house of worship, place of worship - any building where congregations gather for prayer Judaism - the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud

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temple

noun shrine, church, sanctuary, holy place, place of worship, house of God

Translations

temple [ˈtɛmpl] n (building) → templo;

(ANAT) → sien f

temple [ˈtɛmpl] n (= building) → temple m;

(Anat) → tempe f

temple [ˈtɛmpl] n (building) → Tempel m;

(Anat) → Schläfe f

temple [ˈtɛmpl] n (building) → tempio;

(ANAT) → tempia

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temple¹

n temple [ˈtempl]

a building in which people worship, usually as part of a non-Christian religion a Greek/Hindu temple. tempel هَيْكَل، مَعبَد храм svatyně tempel der Tempel ναός templo tempel معبد temppeli temple מִקדָש मंदिर hram, svetište templom kuil musteri tempio 神殿 신전, 사원 šventykla templis; svētnīca kuil tempel tempel świątynia templo 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