temple
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3.4
- noun
- /ˈtɛmpəl/
:
templo
- Meet me at the Hindu temple at morning puja.
- Buddhist temple
- temples and shrines
- build a temple
Why place a temple on top of a tower?
- Why place a temple on top of a tower?
- Why build the the the Temple of the Moon?
- And yet we vandalize the very temple that we have been given.
- I just spent five years in a temple practicing this stuff.
- Any burnt height is a temple to Aphrodite quote.
- She's going to be in the temple of the God Kings.
- Yeah, you build a you build a temple for whoever made this.
- So they went from a temple in Argentina to a temple in Brazil.
Examples
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I would like to visit Wong Tai Sin temple tomorrow.
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One damaged temple does not destroy centuries of tradition.
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I have the whole temple to myself!
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On one side of the main temple building is the office of a foreign bank.
Fiction book (1992) -
Why place a temple on top of a tower?
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I was merely trying to get close to the temple, not inside.
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The mother runs through the temple and gives thanks to the gods.
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A tone sounded from the organ, filling the temple with its clarion call to prayer.
Fiction book (1992) -
The complex is made up of the temple atop a walled acropolis reached by the massive stairway.
Academic text (2008) -
The mother runs through the temple and gives thanks to the gods.
Synonyms
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2.8
A building where Muslims pray, often with a tall tower called a minaret
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4.1
A holy place where people go to pray and honor a saint or sacred object
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3.8
A building where Jewish people meet to pray and learn
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6.7
A tall Asian temple with many levels and curved roofs
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2.9
A place where people meet to pray or have religious services
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2.9
A building where people gather for prayer or religious services
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3.1
A building where people gather to pray, like a church
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9.9
A place of worship used by the ancient Israelites as a movable tent
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8.8
A temple in ancient Rome or Greece for all the gods
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3.8
A building where people meet to pray together
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9.9
A temple or holy building from ancient times
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7.5
A Hindu temple where people go to pray
Compounds
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8.4
A very large ancient temple at Ephesus built for the goddess Artemis and famous as one of the Seven Wonders
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7.8
Three ancient buildings in Jerusalem that served as the main place for Jewish worship, the last destroyed in AD 70
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8.1
Three different holy buildings in Jerusalem that were the main place for Jewish worship
- Literature
A very large, beautiful place like a forest or cathedral that makes you feel small and full of wonder
- Literature
A Greek temple at Delphi where a priestess gives predictions from the god Apollo
A temple in Jerusalem built by King Solomon for Jewish worship and later rebuilt on the same site
- Indian
A tropical tree with white fragrant flowers often grown near temples in India
How Sacred
Surface Forms
Etymology
Temple comes from the Latin templum, meaning a 'sacred space' marked out for worship of the gods. So a temple is a building devoted to the worship of a god or gods.