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Is temple a Scrabble word?

Yes, temple is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 10 points in Scrabble.

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  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of temple?

Definition

noun (English)

1. A house of worship, especially:Examples: "How often do you go to temple?"Synonyms: synagogueJudaism

2. A house of worship, especially:Mormonism

3. (figurative) Any place regarded as holding a religious presence.figuratively

4. (figurative) Any place seen as an important centre for some activity.Examples: "a temple of commerce; a temple of drinking and dining"figuratively

5. (figurative) Anything regarded as important or minutely cared for.Examples: "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."figuratively

6. (figurative) A gesture wherein the forefingers are outstretched and touch pad to pad while the other fingers are clasped together.Examples: "Again Abdullah listened intently, his eyes closed, his ten fingers forming a temple of his hands in front of him."figuratively

verb (English)

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

noun (English)

1. (anatomy) 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.Examples: "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."

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.

noun (English)

1. (weaving) A contrivance used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.Synonyms: template

name (English)

1. (Judaism, Christianity, historical) Any of the former chief temples to YHWH in Jerusalem, particularly Solomon's Temple.Judaismhistorical

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "temple"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "temple"?

Scrabble
10 points
T1
E1
M3
P3
L1
E1
Words With Friends
13 points
T1
E1
M4
P4
L2
E1

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