temple

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 tĕm'pl

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A house of worship, especially:; A house of worship dedicated to a polytheistic faith.
    — The temple of Zeus was very large.
  2. 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.
  3. A contrivance used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.
  4. A house of worship, especially:; Synonym of synagogue, especially a non-Orthodox synagogue. Judaism
    — How often do you go to temple?
  5. Either of the sidepieces on a set of spectacles, extending backwards from the hinge toward the ears and, usually, turning down around them.
  6. A house of worship, especially:; As opposed to an LDS meetinghouse, a church closed to non-Mormons and necessary for particular rituals. Mormonism
  7. A meeting house of the Oddfellows fraternity; its members.
  8. Any place regarded as holding a religious presence. figuratively
  9. Any place seen as an important centre for some activity. figuratively
    — a temple of commerce; a temple of drinking and dining
  10. Anything regarded as important or minutely cared for. figuratively
    — My body is my temple.
  11. A gesture wherein the forefingers are outstretched and touch pad to pad while the other fingers are clasped together. figuratively
    — Again Abdullah listened intently, his eyes closed, his ten fingers forming a temple of his hands in front of him.
动词 v.
  1. To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; to temple a god transitive
    — though the Heathen (in many places) Templed and adored this drunken God

词形变化

temples plural temples present,singular,third-person templing participle,present templed participle,past templed past temples plural temples plural

词汇关系

近义词
house of worship place of worship fane temple shrine
上位词
building
下位词
church mosque synagogue gurudwara gurdwara athenaeum Mithraeum Iseum Iseion serapeum Hekatompedon hof basilica cathedral chapel garth jinja kapishche kovil mandir masjid ziggurat
衍生词
ancestral temple antetemple fire temple Holy Temple lineage temple nontemple subtemple temple block temple dancer Temple Ewell Temple Fortune templeful temple garment temple girl temple-goer templegoer temple-going Temple Guiting Temple Hirst Temple in Jerusalem templeless templelike temple marriage Temple Meads Temple Mills Temple Mount temple name Temple of Heaven temple of immensity temple orange temple prostitute temple prostitution Temple Sowerby temple title temple tree frog temple viper templize templeward templewards temple fade temple ring
相关词
Templar :Category:en:Places of worship temporal
并列词
shrine meeting house church
部分词
altar Holy Book Holy of Holies minbar pulpit sanctum sanctorum

词源

词源 1
From Middle English temple, from Old English templ, tempel, borrowed from Latin templum (“shrine, temple, area for auspices”). Compare Old High German tempal (“temple”), also a borrowing from the Latin.
词源 2
From Middle English temple, from Old French temple, from Vulgar Latin *temp(u)la, from Latin tempora (“the temples”), plural of tempus (“temple, head, face”). See temporal bone.
词源 3
Borrowed from Latin templum (“a small timber, a purlin”); compare templet and template.
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