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temenos

/ˈtɛmənɒs/

temenos noun: ground under, surrounding and adjacent to a temple; a sacred enclosure or precinct.

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

temenos meaning in Tamil and Bengali

temenos in Tamil

கோயிற் கருவறை, கோயிற்கருவறை

temenos in Bengali

মন্দির সংলগ্ন, চারপাশের, সংযুক্ত ভূমি, একটি পবিত্র ঘের, উপমণ্ডল

Forms of temenos

pluraltemenoi
pluraltemene

Origin of temenos

From Ancient Greek τέμενος (témenos).

Questions about temenos

What does temenos mean?
Temenos means ground under, surrounding and adjacent to a temple; a sacred enclosure or precinct.
What is temenos in Tamil?
Temenos in Tamil is கோயிற் கருவறை, கோயிற்கருவறை. See Temenos meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is temenos?
Temenos is a noun.
How do you pronounce temenos?
Temenos is pronounced /ˈtɛmənɒs/.
What is the plural of temenos?
The plural of temenos is temenoi.

Words near temenos in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: temenos (page history and authors); temenos (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); temenos (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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