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temenoi

temenoi 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 temenoi

What is temenoi the plural of?
Temenoi is the plural of temenos.

Words near temenoi in the dictionary

  1. temelastine
  2. Temelec
  3. temene
  4. temenggong
  5. temenggongs
  6. temenoi
  7. temenos
  8. temephos
  9. temerarious
  10. temerariously
  11. temerariousness

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