temple — ozdic

Collocations

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1

(noun.) building used for worship

ADJ

great

Visitors traveled thousands of miles to see the great temple dedicated to the ancient gods.

ancient, classical | sacred | ruined | Buddhist, Hindu, etc. | heathen, pagan

TEMPLE + NOUN

priest

PREP

in a/the ~

Thousands of visitors walk in the temple every year to see the ancient paintings.

2

(noun.) part of the head

ADJ

left, right | throbbing

PREP

at sb's/the ~ s

My father started to get some grey hair at his temples when he turned fifty.

in sb's ~ s

She felt a sharp pain in her temples after staring at the computer screen all day.

Definitions

noun

1

A house of worship, especially:

The temple of Zeus was very large.

As of October 1968 Lukang, which had a resident population of between 27,000 and 28,000 people, had 39 temples. It is my impression that Lukang has more temples than do most Taiwanese communities of equivalent size. By temple I mean a structure that houses an image, altar, and incense pot, and is freely accessible to the general public. In speaking of the 39 temples of Lukang, I am omitting the numerous small shrines to the unknown dead (Yu Ying Kung), buildings dedicated to ancestors rather than deities (two), Christian churches (four), incense-burner associations that keep their incense pot or image in private homes, and private shrines such as the domestic altars of tang-ki (spirit mediums) or the shrine of the now defunct Ch'üan-chou guild, found in the back room of a drugstore endowed with the guild property.[...]Lukang, seen in comparative perspective, has a lot of temples.

2

A house of worship, especially:

How often do you go to temple?

3

A house of worship, especially:

4

A meeting house of the Oddfellows fraternity; its members.

5

Any place regarded as holding a religious presence.

verb

1

To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; to temple a god

though the Heathen (in many places) Templed and adored this drunken God

noun

1

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.

Then Iael Hebers wife, tooke a naile of the tent, and tooke an hammer in her hand, and went softly vnto him, and smote the naile into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: (for he was fast asleepe, and weary;) so he died.

Biblical criteria of sexual seductiveness include a white skin, black hair, or henna-dyed, scarlet lips, a prominent nose, rosy temples, long straight neck, firm breasts, round thighs, an erect posture.

2

Either of the sidepieces on a set of spectacles, extending backwards from the hinge toward the ears and, usually, turning down around them.

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Synonyms

noun — (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

temple of immensity

The universe or the complete overhead expanse of the heavens, especially as conceived as an object of religious reverence.

[T]his poor Cordwainer, as we said, was a Man; and the Temple of Immensity, wherein as Man he had been sent to minister, was full of holy mystery to him.

Example Bank

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01

The temple of Zeus was very large.

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02

As of October 1968 Lukang, which had a resident population of between 27,000 and 28,000 people, had 39 temples. It is my impression that Lukang has more temples than do most Taiwanese communities of e

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03

How often do you go to temple?

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04

though the Heathen (in many places) Templed and adored this drunken God

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Then Iael Hebers wife, tooke a naile of the tent, and tooke an hammer in her hand, and went softly vnto him, and smote the naile into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: (for he was fast asl

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06

Biblical criteria of sexual seductiveness include a white skin, black hair, or henna-dyed, scarlet lips, a prominent nose, rosy temples, long straight neck, firm breasts, round thighs, an erect postur

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Usage Notes

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