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templeful

templeful noun: as many as a temple will hold.

Noun

templeful (plural templefuls or templesful)

  1. As many as a temple will hold.
    • Jesus could drive before Him a whole templeful of moneychangers with only a small whip of rushes.1887 January, A.E. Waffle, “The Christian Solution of the Labor Problem”, in The Baptist Quarterly Review, volume 9, number 1, page 32

Forms of templeful

pluraltemplefuls
pluraltemplesful

Origin of templeful

From temple + -ful.

Questions about templeful

What does templeful mean?
Templeful means as many as a temple will hold.
What part of speech is templeful?
Templeful is a noun.
What is the plural of templeful?
The plural of templeful is templefuls.

Words near templeful in the dictionary

  1. temple-prostitute
  2. temple-prostitutes
  3. Templeborough
  4. Templecombe
  5. templed
  6. templeful
  7. templefuls
  8. templegoer
  9. templegoers
  10. templegoing
  11. templeless

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