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Temple vs Palace - What's the difference?

temple | palace |

Palace is a derived term of temple.



As nouns the difference between temple and palace

is that temple is a building for worship while palace is official residence of a head of state or other dignitary, especially in a monarchical or imperial governmental system.

As verbs the difference between temple and palace

is that temple is to build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to while palace is to decorate or ornate.

As proper nouns the difference between temple and palace

is that temple is a given name derived from Latin while Palace is Crystal Palace Football Club, a football team from London.

temple

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) temple, from (etyl) templ, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A building for worship.
  • The temple of Zeus was very large.
  • (often, capitalized) The Jewish temple of Jerusalem, first built by Solomon.
  • Something regarded as holding religious presence.
  • Something of importance; something attended to.
  • My body is my temple.
  • (obsolete) A body.
  • * 1602 , (William Shakespeare), , act 1, scene 3, lines 11–14:
  • For nature crescent does not grow alone
    In thews and bulks, but as this temple waxes,
    The inward service of the mind and soul
    Grows wide withal.
  • Hands held together with forefingers outstretched and touching pad to pad, with the rest of the fingers clasped.
  • *
  • Synonyms
    * house of worship
    Derived terms
    * templelike * Temple Mount * Temple of Heaven * temple of immensity

    Verb

    (templ)
  • To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to.
  • to temple a god
    (Feltham)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) temple, from (etyl) temple, from (etyl) (see "temporal bone" )

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (anatomy) The slightly flatter region, on either side of the head, back of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch and in front of the ear.
  • (ophthalmology) Either of the sidepieces on a set of spectacles, extending backwards from the hinge toward the ears and, usually, turning down around them.
  • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) ; compare templet and template.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (weaving) A contrivance used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.
  • Anagrams

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    palace

    English

    (wikipedia palace)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Official residence of a head of state or other dignitary, especially in a monarchical or imperial governmental system.
  • A large and lavishly ornate residence.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].}}
  • A large, ornate public building used for entertainment or exhibitions.
  • Derived terms

    * palace politics * palatial * puck palace

    Verb

    (palac)
  • (archaic) To decorate or ornate.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1921, author=Kenneth Morris, title=The Crest-Wave of Evolution, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=And this Great King was a far-way, tremendous, golden figure, moving in a splendor as of fairy tales; palaced marvelously, so travelers told, in cities compared with which even Athens seemed mean. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1874, author=Benj. N. Martin, title=Choice Specimens of American Literature, And Literary Reader, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=May, with her green lap full of sprouting leaves and bright blossoms, her song-birds making the orchards and meadows vocal, and rippling streams and cultivated gardens; June, with full-blown roses and humming-bees, plenteous meadows and wide cornfields, with embattled lines rising thick and green; August, with reddened orchards and heavy-headed harvests of grain, October, with yellow leaves and swart shadows; December, palaced in snow, and idly whistling through his numb fingers;-all have their various charm; and in the rose-bowers of summer, and as we spread our hands before the torches of winter, we say joyfully, "Thou hast made all things beautiful in their time."}} ----