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temene

temene is the plural of temenos.

Meaning of temenos

Noun

temenos (plural temenoi or temene)

  1. (chiefly Ancient Greece) Ground under, surrounding and adjacent to a temple; a sacred enclosure or precinct.
    • The three spheres – political, commercial, spiritual – intersected, and at the very centre of their conjunction was, and is, the Meccan temenos.2019, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs, Yale University Press, page 123

Questions about temene

What is temene the plural of?
Temene is the plural of temenos.

Words near temene in the dictionary

  1. Temecula
  2. TEMED
  3. temefos
  4. temelastine
  5. Temelec
  6. temene
  7. temenggong
  8. temenggongs
  9. temenoi
  10. temenos
  11. temephos

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