{
    "term": "temple",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "image": "data/images/bu/buildings.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a building used for religious worship, especially in religions other than Christianity",
            "labels": "(North American English)(North American English)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the Temple of Diana at Ephesus"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **Buddhist/Hindu/Sikh temple**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to go to temple *(= to a service in a , where Jewish people worship)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They went to pray in the temple."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These deities prevent evil spirits from entering the temple precincts."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a temple dedicated to Venus"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the great temples of Egypt"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Religion and festivals", "Buildings"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["great", "ancient", "classical"],
                "verb + temple": ["dedicate"],
                "temple + noun": ["priest", "priestess", "complex"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the temple", "to temple"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "each of the flat parts at the sides of the head, at the same level as the eyes and higher",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He had black hair, greying at the temples."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There was a throbbing in her temples."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Body"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["left", "right", "throbbing"],
                "verb + temple": ["massage", "rub"],
                "temple + verb": ["throb"],
                "preposition": ["at somebody’s/​the temples", "in somebody’s temples"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈtempl/",
                "audio": "te/temple/temple__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈtempl/",
                "audio": "te/temple/temple__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "sense 1 Old English templ, tempel, reinforced in Middle English by Old French temple, both from Latin templum ‘open or consecrated space’.sense 2 Middle English: from Old French, from an alteration of Latin tempora, plural of tempus ‘temple of the head’."
}