TABERNACLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tabernacle mean? 

• TABERNACLE (noun)
  The noun TABERNACLE has 3 senses:

1. the Mormon temple

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

3. (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation

  Familiarity information: TABERNACLE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TABERNACLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The Mormon temple

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

Mormon Tabernacle; Tabernacle

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)

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:

(Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

synagogue; tabernacle; temple

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)

 Context examples 

Brother Luke hath given me some skill in damask work, and in the enamelling of shrines, tabernacles, diptychs and triptychs.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A bed supported on massive pillars of mahogany, hung with curtains of deep red damask, stood out like a tabernacle in the centre; the two large windows, with their blinds always drawn down, were half shrouded in festoons and falls of similar drapery; the carpet was red; the table at the foot of the bed was covered with a crimson cloth; the walls were a soft fawn colour with a blush of pink in it; the wardrobe, the toilet-table, the chairs were of darkly polished old mahogany.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I knew well that I risked death; for any drug that so potently controlled and shook the very fortress of identity, might, by the least scruple of an overdose or at the least inopportunity in the moment of exhibition, utterly blot out that immaterial tabernacle which I looked to it to change.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)