Dictionary Entry
tabernacle
tabernacle is a 10-letter English word with 15 senses as noun and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A slightly built or temporary habitation; especially, a tent. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 18 · 15 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A slightly built or temporary habitation; especially, a tent.
- 2noun
A portable structure of wooden framework covered with curtains, which was carried through the wilderness in the Israelitish exodus, as a place of sacrifice and worship.
- 3noun
Hence, the Jewish temple; sometimes, any other place for worship.
- 4noun
Figuratively: The human body, as the temporary abode of the soul.
- 5noun
Any small cell, or like place, in which some holy or precious things was deposited or kept.
- 6noun
The ornamental receptacle for the pyx, or for the consecrated elements, whether a part of a building or movable.
- 7noun
A niche for the image of a saint, or for any sacred painting or sculpture.
- 8noun
Hence, a work of art of sacred subject, having a partially architectural character, as a solid frame resting on a bracket, or the like.
- 9noun
A tryptich for sacred imagery.
- 10noun
A seat or stall in a choir, with its canopy.
- 11noun
A boxlike step for a mast with the after side open, so that the mast can be lowered to pass under bridges, etc.
- 12intransitive verb
To dwell or reside for a time; to be temporary housed.
- 13noun
(Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation
- 14noun
(Judaism) a portable sanctuary in which the Jews carried the Ark of the Covenant on their exodus
- 15noun
the Mormon temple
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