| Temple: English to English |
| Temple (n.) A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely. |
| Temple (n.) A place or edifice dedicated to the worship of some deity; as, the temple of Jupiter at Athens, or of Juggernaut in India. |
| Temple (n.) Fig.: Any place in which the divine presence specially resides. |
| Temple (n.) Hence, among Christians, an edifice erected as a place of public worship; a church. |
| Temple (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. |
| Temple (n.) The edifice erected at Jerusalem for the worship of Jehovah. |
| Temple (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. |
| Temple (v. t.) To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; as, to temple a god. |