Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Temple

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. [clergymen's residence] parsonage, rectory, vicarage, manse, deanery, glebe
  • Vatican
  • bishop's palace
  • Lambeth. altar, shrine, sanctuary, Holy of Holies, sacristy
  • sacrarium
  • communion table, holy table, Lord's table
  • table of the Lord
  • pyx
  • baptistery, font
  • piscina, stoup
  • aumbry
  • sedile
  • reredos
  • rood loft, rood screen. [parts of a church: list] 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
  • jube
  • mourner's bench, mourner's seat. [exterior adjacent to a church] cloisters, churchyard. monastery, priory, abbey, friary, convent, nunnery, cloister.
Adjectives
  • claustral, cloistered
  • monastic, monasterial
  • conventual.
Phrases
  • there's nothing ill can dwell in such a there's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple" [Tempest].