tabernacle

noun

ˈta-bər-ˌna-kəl How to pronounce tabernacle (audio)
Definition of tabernaclenext
as in church
a building for public worship and especially Christian worship worshippers gathering at the Baptist tabernacle on a bright Sunday morning

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Recent Examples of tabernacle Among the damage is a smashed statue of The Virgin Mary, other religious artifacts, like the tabernacle that stores communion, and destroyed furniture. — Michele Gile, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2026 Communion rails were removed, ramps up to the altar were added, and the tabernacle was moved behind the altar. — Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 23 Dec. 2025 André called his wardrobe his armor, his tabernacle and his sanctuary. — Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 13 Dec. 2025 What was public was the box, a small tabernacle on the sidewalk, and the tears that were sneaking up on me. — James Marcus, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tabernacle
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  1. church
  2. temple
  3. cathedral
  4. chapel
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  • Until a 1917 church law was revised in 1983, those who died by suicide were denied Catholic burials on consecrated grounds.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2026
  • The reconstruction of one of the nation's oldest Black churches, where congregants gathered in secret before building a meeting house in Virginia, was celebrated Friday.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of church
Noun
  • The Wat Po Deluxe rooms, which face away from the river, actually give you a very striking, colorful view of tropical plants and the intricate, tiled chedis of this famous temple complex.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Asia is represented by Thai director Sompot Chidgasornpongse’s 9 Temples to Heaven, about a family which visits nine temples in a single day in the hope of keeping their grandmother alive.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of temple
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  • Finally, on Saturday, October 10, Giulia and Conor exchanged vows at the historic cathedral of Nossa Senhora do Carmo da Antiga Sé, followed by a celebratory lunch and reception at Instituto Brando Barbosa.
    — Alexandra Macon, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2026
  • One of Lichtenstein’s takes on Monet in this show features the cathedral buried beneath a matrix of black dots set atop a deep blue background, in what may count as an allusion to Ad Reinhardt’s blue-on-blue abstractions of the ’50s.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of cathedral
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  • The hotel works with a local Franciscan friar from Ravello, Friar Marcus, to introduce interested guests to the chapel, or whisk them on tours of Ravello, his local parish (and the home of Villas Cimbrone and Rufolo).
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
  • About five minutes away, Dakasha Caulfield Leonard, 48, sat in the chapel of Scott’s Bluff Morticians, a nearly century-old fixture in the business community.
    — Gary Fields, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of chapel

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