temple
A house of worship, especially:
Noun 4 meanings
A house of worship, especially:
“The temple of Zeus was very large.”
A meeting house of the Oddfellows fraternity; its members.
Any place regarded as holding a religious presence.
Any place seen as an important centre for some activity.
“a temple of commerce; a temple of drinking and dining”
Verb 1 meaning
To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; to temple a god
Etymology
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. Displaced native Old English ealh.
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TEMPLE at a glance
TEMPLE has 6 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (T 1 + E 1 + M 3 + P 3 + L 1 + E 1) and 13 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,273 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with temple
All rhymes- PEOPLE10
- EXAMPLE18
- COUPLE10
- SIMPLE10
- MULTIPLE12
- APPLE9
- SAMPLE10
- PRINCIPLE15
- PURPLE10
- TRIPLE8
- MAPLE9
- AMPLE9
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- SEMPLE10
- KEMPLE14
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