temple
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Is temple a Scrabble word?
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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