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).

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(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).

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(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

place of worship, house of worship, church, cathedral, synagogue, holy place, shrine, sanctuary, pagoda. see church, religion