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SYNAGOGUE
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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 ("synagogue" 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)
