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Temple vs Naos - What's the difference?

temple | naos |

As nouns the difference between temple and naos

is that temple is a building for worship while naos is the inner part of a Greek temple; it contained a statue of the appropriate deity surrounded by a colonnaded portico; it gave rise to the Roman cella.

As a verb temple

is to build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to.

As a proper noun Temple

is a given name derived from Latin.

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
    Related terms
    * temporal * Templar

    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.
    • Related terms
    * temporal

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) ; compare templet and template.

    Noun

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

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    naos

    English

    Noun

  • (architecture) The inner part of a Greek temple; it contained a statue of the appropriate deity surrounded by a colonnaded portico; it gave rise to the Roman cella
  • * 1846 Henry Ellis - The Elgin and Phigaleian marbles of the classical ages, in the British museum
    • The simplest form of the rectangular temple was that in which the two side walls were carried out from the naos to form the porch at one or both extremities of the building.