Usually means: Sacred place for religious worship.
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General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. temple: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Temple, temple: Merriam-Webster
  3. Temple, temple, temple, temple, the Temple: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. temple: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. temple: Collins English Dictionary
  6. temple: Vocabulary.com
  7. Temple, temple: Wordnik
  8. temple: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Temple, Temple: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. Temple, temple: Wiktionary
  11. temple: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. temple: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. temple: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. Temple: Dictionary.com
  15. temple (1), temple (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. temple: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Temple (Chinese), Temple (Greek), Temple (Kings of Leon song), Temple (LDS Church), Temple (Latter Day Saints), Temple (London), Temple (Paris), Temple (Roman), Temple (TV series), Temple (anatomy), Temple (disambiguation), Temple (film), Temple (name), Temple (novel), Temple (play), Temple (weaving), Temple, The Temple (Atlanta), The Temple (London), The Temple (Lovecraft short story), The Temple (Oates short story), The Temple (Stephen Spender), The Temple (Washington), The Temple (film), The Temple (novel), The Temple: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Temple: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. temple: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. temple: Rhymezone
  21. temple, temple (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. temple: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. Temple, Temple: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. temple: FreeDictionary.org
  25. temple: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. Temple: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. temple: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  28. temple, Temple, temple: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. (Miss) Temple: Artist Search
  2. Temple: ANIME AND MANGA GLOSSARY
  3. Temple: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Temple (building), temple: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. temple: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Temple: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  6. Temple (building), temple: Medical dictionary
  7. Temple: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. baby names list (No longer online)
  3. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. TEMPLE: Acronym Finder
  5. A Dictionary Of WitchCraft (No longer online)

Religion (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Temple: Easton Bible
  2. Temple: Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  4. Temple: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  5. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. temple: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Temple, temple: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Temple)

noun:  A house of worship, especially:
noun:  A house of worship dedicated to a polytheistic faith.
noun:  (Judaism) Synonym of synagogue, especially a non-Orthodox synagogue.
noun:  (Mormonism) As opposed to an LDS meetinghouse, a church closed to non-Mormons and necessary for particular rituals.
noun:  A meeting house of the Oddfellows fraternity; its members.
noun:  (figurative) Any place regarded as holding a religious presence.
noun:  (figurative) Any place seen as an important centre for some activity.
noun:  (figurative) Anything regarded as important or minutely cared for.
noun:  (figurative) A gesture wherein the forefingers are outstretched and touch pad to pad while the other fingers are clasped together.
verb:  (transitive) To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; to temple a god
noun:  (anatomy) The slightly flatter region, on either side of the head of a vertebrate, including a human, behind the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch, and forward of the ear.
noun:  (ophthalmology) Either of the sidepieces on a set of spectacles, extending backwards from the hinge toward the ears and, usually, turning down around them.
noun:  (weaving) A contrivance used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.
noun:  A male given name from Latin.
noun:  A female given name from Latin.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Places in the United Kingdom:
noun:  A suburb of Glasgow, Scotland (OS grid ref NS5469).
noun:  A village in Midlothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT3158).
noun:  A small village in Bisham parish, Windsor and Maidenhead borough, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU8484).
noun:  A small village in Blisland parish, on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX1473).
noun:  Places in the United States:
noun:  A city in Carroll County and Haralson County, Georgia.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Crawford County, Indiana.
noun:  A town in Franklin County, Maine.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Clare County, Michigan.
noun:  A town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.
noun:  A ghost town in Williams County, North Dakota.
noun:  A town in Cotton County, Oklahoma.
noun:  A census-designated place in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
noun:  A city in Bell County, Texas, named after Bernard Moore Temple of the Santa Fe Railway.
noun:  A neighbourhood of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
noun:  (Judaism, Christianity, historical) Any of the former chief temples to YHWH in Jerusalem, particularly Solomon's Temple.
noun:  Either of two of the Inns of Court in London (the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple), built on a site once occupied by the Knights Templar.

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