temple

معنی کلمه temple

معنی واژه temple

n. - A building dedicated to the administration of ordinances.
n. - A local organization of Odd Fellows.
n. - A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.
n. - The space, on either side of the head, back of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch and in front of the ear.
n. - 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.
n. - A place or edifice dedicated to the worship of some deity; as, the temple of Jupiter at Athens, or of Juggernaut in India.
n. - The edifice erected at Jerusalem for the worship of Jehovah.
n. - Hence, among Christians, an edifice erected as a place of public worship; a church.
n. - Fig.: Any place in which the divine presence specially resides.
v. t. - To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; as, to temple a god.