TEMPLE OF SOLOMON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Temple of Solomon mean? 

• TEMPLE OF SOLOMON (noun)
  The noun TEMPLE OF SOLOMON has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: TEMPLE OF SOLOMON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEMPLE OF SOLOMON (noun)

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Meaning:

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

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Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

Temple of Jerusalem; Temple of Solomon

Instance hypernyms:

synagogue; tabernacle; temple ((Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation)

Holonyms ("Temple of Solomon" is a part of...):

capital of Israel; Jerusalem (capital and largest city of the modern state of Israel (although its status as capital is disputed); it was captured from Jordan in 1967 in the Six Day War; a holy city for Jews and Christians and Muslims; was the capital of an ancient kingdom)