Dictionary Entry
temple
temple is a 6-letter English word with 12 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.
- 2noun
The space, on either side of the head, back of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch and in front of the ear.
- 3noun
One of the side bars of a pair of spectacles, jointed to the bows, and passing one on either side of the head to hold the spectacles in place.
- 4noun
A place or edifice dedicated to the worship of some deity; as, the temple of Jupiter at Athens, or of Juggernaut in India.
- 5noun
The edifice erected at Jerusalem for the worship of Jehovah.
- 6noun
Hence, among Christians, an edifice erected as a place of public worship; a church.
- 7noun
Fig.: Any place in which the divine presence specially resides.
- 8transitive verb
To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; as, to temple a god.
- 9noun
(Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation
Synonyms
- 10noun
place of worship consisting of an edifice for the worship of a deity
- 11noun
an edifice devoted to special or exalted purposes
- 12noun
the flat area on either side of the forehead
"the veins in his temple throbbed"
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