church vs temple

church

noun
  • A Christian house of worship; a building where Christian religious services take place. 

  • A local group of people who follow the same Christian religious beliefs, local or general. 

  • Any religious group. 

  • Christian worship held at a church; service. 

  • Christians collectively seen as a single spiritual community; Christianity; Christendom. 

  • A particular denomination of Christianity. 

  • Organized religion in general or a specific religion considered as a political institution. 

intj
  • Expressing strong agreement. 

verb
  • To educate someone religiously, as in in a church. 

  • To conduct a religious service for (a woman after childbirth, or a newly married couple). 

temple

noun
  • A house of worship dedicated to a polytheistic faith. 

  • Any place regarded as holding a religious presence. 

  • A gesture wherein the forefingers are outstretched and touch pad to pad while the other fingers are clasped together. 

  • Anything regarded as important or minutely cared for. 

  • The slightly flatter region, on either side of the human head, behind of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch, and forward of the ear. 

  • A contrivance used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely. 

  • Synonym of synagogue, especially a non-Orthodox synagogue. 

  • As opposed to an LDS meetinghouse, a church closed to non-Mormons and necessary for particular rituals. 

  • A Buddhist monastery, as opposed to a Shinto shrine. 

  • A meeting house of the Oddfellows fraternity; its members. 

  • Either of the sidepieces on a set of spectacles, extending backwards from the hinge toward the ears and, usually, turning down around them. 

  • Any place seen as an important centre for some activity. 

verb
  • To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; to temple a god 

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