TEMPORAL
Dictionary entry overview: What does temporal mean?
• TEMPORAL (noun)
The noun TEMPORAL has 1 sense:
1. the semantic role of the noun phrase that designating the time of the state or action denoted by the verb
Familiarity information: TEMPORAL used as a noun is very rare.
• TEMPORAL (adjective)
The adjective TEMPORAL has 6 senses:
1. not eternal
2. of or relating to or limited by time
3. of or relating to the temples (the sides of the skull behind the orbit)
4. of the material world
5. concerned with secular rather than sacred matters
6. of this earth or world
Familiarity information: TEMPORAL used as an adjective is common.
Dictionary entry details
• TEMPORAL (noun)
Meaning:
The semantic role of the noun phrase that designating the time of the state or action denoted by the verb
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
temporal; temporal role
Hypernyms ("temporal" is a kind of...):
participant role; semantic role (an entity realized by a noun or noun phrase in a clause or sentence)
• TEMPORAL (adjective)
Meaning:
Not eternal
Context example:
temporal matters of but fleeting moment
Similar:
impermanent; temporary (not permanent; not lasting)
Meaning:
Of or relating to or limited by time
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Context examples:
temporal processing / temporal dimensions / temporal and spacial boundaries / music is a temporal art
Pertainym:
time (the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past)
Meaning:
Of or relating to the temples (the sides of the skull behind the orbit)
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Context example:
temporal bone
Pertainym:
temple (the flat area on either side of the forehead)
Meaning:
Of the material world
Context example:
temporal possessions of the church
Similar:
worldly (characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world)
Meaning:
Concerned with secular rather than sacred matters
Synonyms:
worldly; temporal
Context example:
lords temporal and spiritual
Similar:
profane (not sacred or concerned with religion)
Meaning:
Of this earth or world
Context examples:
temporal joys / our temporal existence
Similar:
earthly (of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven)
