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Shirley Temple

noun
  1. a nonalcoholic cocktail of ginger ale and grenadine, garnished with a maraschino cherry: a child's drink, served especially to a girl.
Compare Roy Rogers.

Temple

[tem-puh l]
noun
  1. ShirleyShirley Temple Black, 1928–2014, U.S. film actress, famous for child roles during the 1930s, and diplomat.
  2. Sir William,1628–99, English essayist and diplomat.
  3. a city in central Texas.
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British Dictionary definitions for shirley temple

temple

1
noun
  1. a building or place dedicated to the worship of a deity or deities
  2. a Mormon church
  3. US another name for a synagogue
  4. any Christian church, esp a large or imposing one
  5. any place or object regarded as a shrine where God makes himself present, esp the body of a person who has been sanctified or saved by grace
  6. a building regarded as the focus of an activity, interest, or practicea temple of the arts
Derived Formstempled, adjectivetemple-like, adjective

Word Origin for temple

Old English tempel, from Latin templum; probably related to Latin tempus time, Greek temenos sacred enclosure, literally: a place cut off, from temnein to cut

temple

2
noun
  1. the region on each side of the head in front of the ear and above the cheek boneRelated adjective: temporal

Word Origin for temple

C14: from Old French temple, from Latin tempora the temples, from tempus temple of the head

temple

3
noun
  1. the part of a loom that keeps the cloth being woven stretched to the correct width

Word Origin for temple

C15: from French, from Latin templum a small timber

Temple

1
noun
  1. either of two buildings in London and Paris that belonged to the Templars. The one in London now houses two of the chief law societies
  2. any of three buildings or groups of buildings erected by the Jews in ancient Jerusalem for the worship of Jehovah

Temple

2
noun
  1. Shirley, married name Shirley Temple Black. born 1928, US film actress and politician. Her films as a child star include Little Miss Marker (1934), Wee Willie Winkie (1937), and Heidi (1937). She was US ambassador to Ghana (1974–76) and to Czechoslovakia (1989–92)
  2. Sir William. 1628–99, English diplomat and essayist. He negotiated the Triple Alliance (1668) and the marriage of William of Orange to Mary II
  3. William. 1881–1944, English prelate and advocate of social reform; archbishop of Canterbury (1942–44)
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Word Origin and History for shirley temple

temple

n.1

"building for worship," Old English tempel, from Latin templum "piece of ground consecrated for the taking of auspices, building for worship," of uncertain signification. Commonly referred either to PIE root *tem- "to cut," on notion of "place reserved or cut out," or to PIE root *temp- "to stretch," on notion of cleared space in front of an altar. Figurative sense of "any place regarded as occupied by divine presence" was in Old English. Applied to Jewish synagogues from 1590s.

temple

n.2

"side of the forehead," early 14c., from Old French temple "side of the forehead" (11c.), from Vulgar Latin *tempula (feminine singular), from Latin tempora, plural of tempus (genitive temporis) "side of the forehead," probably originally "the thin stretch of skin at the side of the forehead." Possibly associated with tempus span "timely space (for a mortal blow with a sword)," or from the notion of "stretched, thinnest part," which is the sense of cognate Old English ðunwange, literally "thin cheek."

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
shirley temple in Medicine

temple

[tĕm′pəl]
n.
  1. The flat region on either side of the forehead.
  2. Either of the sidepieces of a frame for eyeglasses that extends along the temple and over the ear.
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shirley temple in Culture

Temple

The central place of worship for the Israelites. The first Temple was built in Jerusalem (see also Jerusalem) by King Solomon. The stone tablets received by Moses on Mount Sinai — tablets on which the Ten Commandments were written — were kept in the central chamber of Solomon's Temple. Solomon's Temple was later destroyed, as were two succeeding temples built on the site.

Note

A wall remaining from the temples, known as the Western Wall, is one of the most sacred places for Jews (see also Jews) today.
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