Definition of temple

"temple" in the noun sense

1. temple

place of worship consisting of an edifice for the worship of a deity

2. temple

the flat area on either side of the forehead

"the veins in his temple throbbed"

3. temple

an edifice devoted to special or exalted purposes

4. synagogue, temple, tabernacle

Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation

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Quotations for temple

Bring nothing base to the temple. [ Motto ]

A temple of the Holy Ghost, and yet
Of lodging fiends. [ Pollok ]

My favored temple is an humble heart. [ Bailey ]

To rock and river, plain and wood,
I cry, Ye are my kin. While I, O Earth!
Am but an atom of thee, and a breath,
Passing unseen and unrecorded, like
The tiny throb here in my temple's pulse. [ Philip J. Bailey ]

The temple of silence and reconciliation. [ Macaulay ]

Mark her majestic fabric; she's a temple
Sacred by birth, and built by hands divine;
Her soul's the Deity that lodges there;
Nor is the pile unworthy of the God. [ Dryden ]

The world is the mighty temple of the gods. [ Seneca ]

There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:
If the ill spirit have so fair a house,
Good things will strive to dwell with it. [ William Shakespeare ]

The temple of our purest thoughts is - silence! [ Mrs. Hale ]

Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb
The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar? [ Beattie ]

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Let each new temple, nobler than the last.
Shut thee from Heaven with a dome more vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Where God hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel. [ Burton ]

You cannot rear a temple like a hut of sticks and turf. [ Dr. W. Smith ]

A religion without its mysteries is a temple without a God. [ Robert Hall ]

No sooner is a temple built to God but the devil builds a chapel hard by. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. [ Spurgeon ]

Our follies and errors are the soiled steps to the Grecian temple of our perfection. [ Richter ]

Gifts are as gold that adorns the temple; grace is like the temple that sanctifies the gold. [ Burkitt ]

It is a zealot's faith that blasts the shrines of the false god, but builds no temple to the true. [ Sydney Dobell ]

Charity is the temple of which justice is the foundation, but you can't have the top without the bottom. [ John Ruskin ]

Happy that heart in which no more idols are to be found, but the holy God dwelling there alone as in His holy temple. [ R. Leighton ]

The temple of fame stands upon the grave; the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of dead men. [ Hazlitt ]

Truth and fidelity are the pillars of the temple of the world; when these are broken, the fabric falls, and crushes all to pieces. [ Owen Feltham ]

In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race. [ Zimmermann ]

The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's use. [ J. G. Holland ]

Heaven is the day of which grace is the dawn; the rich, ripe fruit of which grace is the lovely flower; the inner shrine of that most glorious temple to which grace forms the approach and outer court. [ Rev. Dr. Guthrie ]

How mighty is the human heart, with all its complicated energies; this living source of all that moves the world! this temple of liberty, this kingdom of heaven, this altar of God, this throne of goodness, so beautiful in holiness, so generous in love! [ Henry Giles ]

The Greeks adored their gods by the simple compliment of kissing their hands; and the Romans were treated as atheists if they would not perform the same act when they entered a temple. This custom, however, as a religious ceremony declined with paganism, but was continued as a salutation by inferiors to their superiors, or as a token of esteem among friends. [ Disraeli ]

Nothing is sillier than this charge of plagiarism. There is no sixth commandment in art. The poet dare help himself wherever he lists, wherever he finds material suited to his work. He may even appropriate entire columns with their carved capitals, if the temple he thus supports be a beautiful one. Goethe understood this very well, and so did Shakespeare before him. [ Heinrich Heine ]

Those who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in have at least one thing to plead in defense of their idolatry - the power of their idol. It is true that, like other idols, it can neither move, see, hear, feel, nor understand; but, unlike other idols, it has often communicated all these powers to those who had them not, and annihilated them in those who had. This idol can boast of two peculiarities; it is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite. [ Colton ]

temple in Scrabble®

The word temple is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters temple:

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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word temple

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In temple

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temple in Words With Friends™

The word temple is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters temple:

TEMPLE
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All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word temple

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In temple

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Words within the letters of temple

2 letter words in temple (4 words)

3 letter words in temple (7 words)

4 letter words in temple (6 words)

6 letter words in temple (1 word)

temple + 1 blank (2 words)

Words containing the sequence temple

Words that start with temple (3 words)

Words with temple in them (1 word)

Words that end with temple (1 word)

Word Growth involving temple

Shorter words in temple

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Longer words containing temple

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