Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word TEMPLE

---

Definitions of TEMPLE

1. A house of worship, especially:
2. A meeting house of the Oddfellows fraternity; its members.
3. Places in the United Kingdom:
4. Either of two of the Inns of Court in London (the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple), built on a site once occupied by the Knights Templar.
5. (figurative) Any place regarded as holding a religious presence.
6. (figurative) Any place seen as an important centre for some activity.
7. (figurative) Anything regarded as important or minutely cared for.
8. (figurative) A gesture wherein the forefingers are outstretched and touch pad to pad while the other fingers are clasped together.
9. (transitive) To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; to temple a god
10. (ophthalmology) Either of the sidepieces on a set of spectacles, extending backwards from the hinge toward the ears and, usually, turning down around them.
11. (weaving) A contrivance used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.
12. A male given name from Latin.
13. A female given name from Latin.
14. A surname.
15. A Places in the United States:
16. A neighbourhood in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
17. (Judaism, Christianity, historical) Any of the former chief temples to YHWH in Jerusalem, particularly Solomon's Temple.
18. (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 of Using TEMPLE in a Sentence

• 295 BC – The first temple to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, is dedicated by Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges during the Third Samnite War.
• Pausanias says that he was the author of one of the pediments of the temple of Zeus at Olympia, but this seems a chronological and stylistic impossibility.
• 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
• After the suppression of the revolt and the destruction of the temple, Ammonius fled to Constantinople, where he became the tutor of the ecclesiastical historian Socrates.
• An Iron Age shrine in the north of Hayling Island, later developed into a Roman temple in the 1st century BC, was first recorded in Richard Scott's Topographical and Historical Account of Hayling Island (1826).
• That temple was Doric on the exterior, Ionic on the interior, and incorporated a Corinthian column, the earliest known, at the center rear of the cella.
• The temple in question is either the amphiprostyle Temple of Athena Nike now visible on the site or a small-scale predecessor (naiskos) whose remains were found in the later temple's foundations.

Page preparation took: 439.97 ms.