Usually means: Sacred enclosure for ancient rituals.
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  1. temenos: Merriam-Webster
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  3. temenos: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Temenos (disambiguation), Temenos: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. temenos: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words

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Definitions from Wiktionary (temenos)

▸ noun:  (chiefly Ancient Greece) Ground under, surrounding and adjacent to a temple; a sacred enclosure or precinct.

Similar:
sekos, pronaos, peripteros, Theseum, peridrome, Acropolis, terminalia, telesterion, Theseion, fanum, more...

Phrases:
Temenos AG, more...

Adjectives:
sacred, greek, large, great, roman, rectangular, ancient, therapeutic, square, walled, inner

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Similar:
sekos, pronaos, peripteros, Theseum, peridrome, Acropolis, terminalia, telesterion, Theseion, fanum, more...

Phrases:
Temenos AG, more...

Adjectives:
sacred, greek, large, great, roman, rectangular, ancient, therapeutic, square, walled, inner



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