temple

temple
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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Edifice for worship
Nouns
1. temple, place of worship; house of God, house of prayer, sanctum.
2. cathedral, minster, church, kirk, bethel, fane, chapel, meetinghouse, mission, tabernacle, basilica, holy place, chantry, oratory; conjuring lodge; synagogue, shul; mosque; marabout; pantheon; mandira; pagoda; shrine, naos. Slang, glory hole. See abode.
3. (part of a temple) altar, bema, shrine, sanctuary, Holy of Holies, sanctum sanctorum, communion table; pyx; baptistery, font; sedilia; reredos; rood-loft, rood-screen, jube; chancel, nave, aisle, transept, vestry, sacristy, crypt, cloisters, misericord, churchyard, golgotha, calvary; stall, pew; pulpit, ambo, lectern, reading-desk, confessional; apse, oriel, belfry, steeple; chancery; dagoba; mihrab, tope. Slang, amen corner or bench.
4. (living place for clergy) parsonage, parish house, rectory, vicarage, manse, deanery, presbytery, Vatican, bishop's palace.
5. (living place for monastic life) monastery, priory, abbey, friary, convent, nunnery, cloister; sanctuary.
Adjectives — churchly, claustral, cloistral, cloistered; monastic, conventual.
Quotations — A Church is God between four walls (Victor Hugo).
II
(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. house of prayer, house of worship, synagogue, aedes (Latin), stupa, dagoba, pantheon, pagoda, tope; see also church 1 .
Famous temples include: Herod's Temple, Solomon's Temple, Zerabbabel's Temple, Parthenon (Athens), Greek Doric Temple (Sicily), Pantheon (Rome), Temple of Fortuna Virilis (Rome), Dilwara Temple (India), Lama Temple (Peking), Pura Besakih (Bali), Shawe Dagon (Rangoon), Honganji Temple (Kyoto), Angkor Wat (Cambodia).
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
place of worship, house of worship, church, cathedral, synagogue, holy place, shrine, sanctuary, pagoda. see church, religion

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  • temple — [ tɑ̃pl ] n. m. • temple de Salomon 1080; lat. templum 1 ♦ (1170) Didact. Édifice public consacré au culte d une divinité. ⇒aussi église, mosquée, pagode, synagogue. « La crainte a élevé des temples » (Valéry). Consacrer; profaner un temple. 2 ♦… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Temple — • The Latin form, templum, from which the English temple is derived, originally signified an uncovered area marked off by boundaries; especially the place marked off by the augurs to be excepted from all profane uses Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin… …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • temple — 1. (tan pl ) s. m. 1°   Chez les Romains, lieu découvert d où la vue pouvait s étendre, et consacré par les augures. •   Le sénat ne pouvait s assembler légalement que dans un lieu consacré par les augures, auquel on donnait pour cette raison le… …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

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  • Temple — Tem ple, n. [AS. tempel, from L. templum a space marked out, sanctuary, temple; cf. Gr. ? a piece of land marked off, land dedicated to a god: cf. F. t[ e]mple, from the Latin. Cf. {Contemplate}.] 1. A place or edifice dedicated to the worship of …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Temple — puede referirse a: Templanza, una virtud. La técnica de pintura denominada pintura al temple. La Orden del Temple, orden medieval de carácter religioso y militar nacida en la primera cruzada. Templado del acero Sir William Temple, estadista y… …   Wikipedia Español

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  • Temple — Temple, GA U.S. city in Georgia Population (2000): 2383 Housing Units (2000): 956 Land area (2000): 6.764119 sq. miles (17.518986 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.095859 sq. miles (0.248273 sq. km) Total area (2000): 6.859978 sq. miles (17.767259 sq …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

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