From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Religion, Humantempletem‧ple /ˈtempəl/ ●●○ noun [countable]1RRa building where people go to worship, in the Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, and Mormonreligions2[usually plural]HBH one of the two fairly flat areas on each side of your foreheadExamples from the Corpustemple• Top: the International check out a temple.• The effort exhausted him although he could not comfortably lie still and his templestightened.• They had been to so many temples and doused themselves with so much holy water, their souls were transparent.• Its a nativetemple of sorts, I suppose, Monsieur Joseph.• Within the solid walls of templecompounds in Kyoto or Nara, Charles began to relax.• As the temples of the goddesses were destroyed Lilith the Levia an languished forlornly on her ocean bed.• If this was baseball, the next hitter would have gotten a fastball to the temple.• There was even revelation in this temple of nature.TempleTemplean area in centralLondon which contains the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple, two parts of the Inns of Court. Many lawyers and barristers work there.Origintemple1. (800-900)Latintemplum2. (1300-1400)Old FrenchVulgar Latintempula, from Latintempora (plural)
