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▸ noun:  Any temporary dwelling; a hut, tent, or booth.
▸ noun:  (biblical) The portable tent used before the construction of the temple, where the shekinah (presence of God) was believed to dwell.
▸ noun:  (by extension) The Jewish Temple at Jerusalem (as continuing the functions of the earlier tabernacle).
▸ noun:  Any portable shrine used in heathen or idolatrous worship.
▸ noun:  A sukkah, the booth or 'tabernacle' used during the Jewish Feast of Sukkot.
▸ noun:  (Roman Catholicism) A small ornamented cupboard or box used for the reserved sacrament of the Eucharist, normally located in an especially prominent place in a church.
▸ noun:  (originally Methodism) A temporary place of worship, especially a tent, for a tent meeting, as with a venue for revival meetings.
▸ noun:  (by extension) Any house of worship, especially a Mormon meetinghouse.
▸ noun:  (figuratively) Any abode or dwelling place, or especially the human body as the temporary dwelling place of the soul, or life.
▸ noun:  (nautical) A hinged device allowing for the easy folding of a mast 90 degrees from perpendicular, as for transporting the boat on a trailer, or passing under a bridge.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To dwell; to abide for a time.
▸ noun:  A place name in the United States:
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in Coffee County, Alabama.
▸ noun:  A township in Burlington County, New Jersey.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in Mathews County, Virginia.

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