temple

See also: Temple and templé

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: tĕm'p(ə)l, IPA(key): /ˈtɛmp(ə)l/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛmpəl

Etymology 1

Ryusenji temple in Osaka, Japan.

From Middle English temple, from Old English templ, from Latin templum (“shrine, temple, area for auspices”).

Noun

temple (plural temples)

  1. A house of worship, especially
    1. A house of worship dedicated to a polytheistic faith.
      The temple of Zeus was very large.
    2. (Judaism) A synagogue, especially a non-Orthodox synagogue.
      How often do you go to temple?
    3. (Mormonism) A church closed to non-Mormons and necessary for particular rituals.
  2. A meeting house of the Oddfellows fraternity; its members.
  3. (figuratively) Any place regarded as holding a religious presence.
  4. (figuratively) Anything regarded as important or minutely cared for.
    My body is my temple.
    • 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.
  5. (figuratively) A gesture wherein the forefingers are outstretched and touch pad to pad while the other fingers are clasped together.
    • 2010, James LePore, A World I Never Made, page 251:
      Again Abdullah listened intently, his eyes closed, his ten fingers forming a temple of his hands in front of him.
Synonyms
Hyponyms
  • (house of worship): church (Christian, usually distinguished); mosque (Muslim, usually distinguished); synagogue (Jewish); athenaeum (dedicated to Athena), Mithraeum (dedicated to Mithras); Iseum, Iseion (dedicated to Isis); serapeum (dedicated to Serapis); hecatompedon (a temple of 100 feet length or square)
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Translations
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Verb

temple (third-person singular simple present temples, present participle templing, simple past and past participle templed)

  1. (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?)

Etymology 2

Temple in anatomy

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)

  1. (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.
  2. (ophthalmology) Either of the sidepieces on a set of spectacles, extending backwards from the hinge toward the ears and, usually, turning down around them.
Translations

Etymology 3

From Latin templum (“a small timber, a purlin”); compare templet and template.

Noun

temple (plural temples)

  1. (weaving) A contrivance used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.
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Further reading

  • temple in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • temple in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

Catalan

Noun

temple m (plural temples)

  1. temple (building)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin templum, from Proto-Indo-European *t(e)mp-lo-s, from the root *temp- (“to stretch, string”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɑ̃pl/
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Noun

temple m (plural temples)

  1. temple (for worship)

Further reading

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin tempora, plural of tempus.

Noun

temple m (oblique plural temples, nominative singular temples, nominative plural temple)

  1. (anatomy) temple
Descendants

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin templum.

Noun

temple m (oblique plural temples, nominative singular temples, nominative plural temple)

  1. temple (building where religious services take place)

Spanish

Noun

temple m (plural temples)

  1. mood; humour (of a person)
  2. mettle; courage; spunk
  3. tempering
  4. temperature
  5. (music) tuning
  6. (bullfighting) A move of the cape before a charge


Verb

temple

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of templar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of templar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of templar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of templar.
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