单词 | temple |
释义 | temple1/ˈtɛmp(ə)l /noun 1A building devoted to the worship of a god or gods.Prayers for the temple and for its worship participants are given priority....
1.1 (the Temple) Either of two successive religious buildings of the Jews in Jerusalem. The first (957–586 bc) was built by Solomon and destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar; it contained the Ark of the Covenant. The second (515 bc- ad 70) was enlarged by Herod the Great from 20 bc and destroyed by the Romans during a Jewish revolt; all that remains is the Wailing Wall.The Romans destroyed our Temple....
1.2North American A synagogue.In the USA, synagogues are often called temples....
1.3A place of Christian public worship, especially a Protestant church in France.He examines Huguenot temples, the symbol of the Protestant place in France....
1.4A thing regarded as holy or likened to a temple, especially a person’s body: June treats her body like a temple: she takes yoga classes every day...
With biblical allusion to 1 Corinthians 6:19 1.5A place devoted to or seen as the centre of a particular activity or interest: a temple of science...
2 (the Temple) A group of buildings in Fleet Street, London, which stand on land formerly occupied by the headquarters of the Knights Templar. Located there are the Inner and Outer Temple, two of the Inns of Court.The Temple was the London residence of the Knights Templar until their dissolution. OriginOld English templ, tempel, reinforced in Middle English by Old French temple, both from Latin templum 'open or consecrated space'.
Rhymestemple2/ˈtɛmp(ə)l /noun The flat part of either side of the head between the forehead and the ear: a man with curly hair greying at the temples...
OriginMiddle English: from Old French, from an alteration of Latin tempora, plural of tempus 'temple of the head'. temple3/ˈtɛmp(ə)l /noun A device in a loom for keeping the cloth stretched. OriginLate Middle English: from Old French, perhaps ultimately the same word as temple2. |
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