Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of temple is as below...

Beaucatcher :: Beaucatcher (n.) A small flat curl worn on the temple by women.

Marai :: Marai (n.) A sacred inclosure or temple; -- so called by the islanders of the Pacific Ocean.

Distyle :: Distyle (a.) Having two columns in front; -- said of a temple, portico, or the like..

Octostyle :: Octostyle (a.) Having eight columns in the front; -- said of a temple or portico. The Parthenon is octostyle, but most large Greek temples are hexastele. See Hexastyle..

Paphian :: Paphian (a.) Of or pertaining to Paphos, an ancient city of Cyprus, having a celebrated temple of Venus; hence, pertaining to Venus, or her rites..

Crotaphite :: Crotaphite (n.) The temple or temporal fossa. Also used adjectively.

Tabernacle :: Tabernacle (n.) Hence, the Jewish temple; sometimes, any other place for worship..

Temple :: Temple (v. t.) To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; as, to temple a god..

Peridrome :: Peridrome (n.) The space between the columns and the wall of the cella, in a Greek or a Roman temple..

Stone-horse :: Stonehenge (n.) An assemblage of upright stones with others placed horizontally on their tops, on Salisbury Plain, England, -- generally supposed to be the remains of an ancient Druidical temple..

Temporomalar :: Temporomalar (a.) Of or pertaining to both the temple and the region of the malar bone; as, the temporomalar nerve..

Adytum :: Adytum (n.) The innermost sanctuary or shrine in ancient temples, whence oracles were given. Hence: A private chamber; a sanctum..

Monopteron :: Monopteron (n.) A circular temple consisting of a roof supported on columns, without a cella..

Valhalla :: Valhalla (n.) Fig.: A hall or temple adorned with statues and memorials of a nation's heroes; specifically, the Pantheon near Ratisbon, in Bavaria, consecrated to the illustrious dead of all Germany..

Monopteral :: Monopteral (a.) Round and without a cella; consisting of a single ring of columns supporting a roof; -- said esp. of a temple.

Fane :: Fane (n.) A temple; a place consecrated to religion; a church.

Pediment :: Pediment (n.) Originally, in classical architecture, the triangular space forming the gable of a simple roof; hence, a similar form used as a decoration over porticoes, doors, windows, etc.; also, a rounded or broken frontal having a similar position and use. See Temple..

Crotaphitic :: Crotaphitic (n.) Pertaining to the temple; temporal.

Temple :: Temple (n.) Hence, among Christians, an edifice erected as a place of public worship; a church..

Infratemporal :: Infratemporal (a.) Below the temple; below the temporal bone.

Random Fonts

Most Popular