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TABERNACLE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation

Synonyms:

synagogue; tabernacle; temple

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("tabernacle" is a kind of...):

house of God; house of prayer; house of worship; place of worship (any building where congregations gather for prayer)

Domain category:

Judaism (the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud)

Instance hyponyms:

Temple of Jerusalem; Temple of Solomon (any of three successive temples in Jerusalem that served as the primary center for Jewish worship; the first temple contained the Ark of the Covenant and was built by Solomon in the 10th century BC and destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC; the second was built in 515 BC and the third was an enlargement by Herod the Great in 20 BC that was destroyed by the Romans during a Jewish revolt in AD 70; all that remains is the Wailing Wall)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(Judaism) a portable sanctuary in which the Jews carried the Ark of the Covenant on their exodus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("Tabernacle" is a kind of...):

sanctuary (a consecrated place where sacred objects are kept)

Meronyms (parts of "Tabernacle"):

holy of holies; sanctum sanctorum ((Judaism) sanctuary comprised of the innermost chamber of the Tabernacle in the temple of Solomon where the Ark of the Covenant was kept)

Domain category:

Judaism (the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The Mormon temple

Synonyms:

Mormon Tabernacle; Tabernacle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Instance hypernyms:

temple (place of worship consisting of an edifice for the worship of a deity)

Holonyms ("Tabernacle" is a part of...):

Beehive State; Mormon State; UT; Ut.; Utah (a state in the western United States; settled in 1847 by Mormons led by Brigham Young)

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