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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large church |
| Synonyms: | basilica, bishop's seat, chancel, holy place, house of God, house of prayer, house of worship, minster, place of worship, sanctuary, temple |
| Main Entry: | synagogue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | church |
| Synonyms: | abbey, cathedral, chapel, house of God, house of prayer, house of worship, mosque, parish, shrine, shul, tabernacle, temple |
| Main Entry: | temple |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | house of worship |
| Synonyms: | cathedral, chapel, church, holy place, house, house of God, house of prayer, mosque, pagoda, pantheon, place of worship, sanctuary, shrine, synagogue, tabernacle |
| Main Entry: | house of God |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | church |
| Synonyms: | bethel, church house, house of prayer, house of worship, meetinghouse, mosque, place of worship, shul, synagogue, tabernacle, temple |
| Main Entry: | tabernacle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | church |
| Synonyms: | habitation, house of prayer, niche, reliquary, sanctuary, shelter, shrine, temple, tent |
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| Main Entry: | church |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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abbatial, abbatical, antinomian, apostolic, apostolical, archiepiscopal, autocephalous, biblical, canonical, capitular, clerical, conventual, denominational, ecclesiastical, ecclesiological, ecumenical, episcopal, episcopalian, evangelical, evangelistic, hierarchical, hieratic, his eminence, his grace, his holiness, homiletic, in orders, inspired, kaaba, kerygmatic, laical, latitudinarian, lay, litaneutical, ministerial, monachal, monasterial, monastic, monkish, ordained, papable, papal, paparchical, pastoral, pontifical, prelatical, presbyterian, priest, priestly, prophetic, religious, sacerdotal, sacred, scriptural, sectarian, secular, supralapsarian, sybilline, syncretic, syncretical, temporal, textuary, the reverend, the right reverend, the very reverend, theandric, theocentric, theochristic, theocratic, theological, theopneust, theopneustic, trayf, ultramontane, unhouselled, vatic
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| Concept: | Temple. |
| Category: | 5. Religious institutions |
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-nouns
place of worship; house of God, house of prayer., temple, cathedral, minster, church, kirk, chapel, meetinghouse, bethel, tabernacle, conventicle, basilica, fane, holy place, chantry, oratory., synagogue; mosque; marabout; pantheon; pagoda; joss house; dogobah, tope; kiosk; kiack, masjid., parsonage, rectory, vicarage, manse, deanery, glebe; Vatican; bishop's palace; Lambeth., altar, shrine, sanctuary, Holy of Holies, sanctum sanctorum, sacristy; sacrarium; communion table, holy table, Lord's table; table of the Lord; pyx; baptistery, font; piscina, stoup; aumbry; sedile; reredos; roodloft, roodscreen., chancel, quire, choir, nave, aisle, transept, vestry, crypt, golgotha, calvary, Easter sepulcher; stall, pew; pulpit, ambo, lectern, reading desk, confessional, prothesis, credence, baldachin, baldacchino; apse, belfry; chapter house; presbytery; anxious-bench, anxious-seat; diaconicum, jube; mourner's bench, mourner's seat., cloisters, churchyard., monastery, priory, abbey, friary, convent, nunnery, cloister.
-adjectives
claustral, cloistered; monastic, monasterial; conventual.
-phrases
ne vile fano; "there's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple" [tempest].
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