Clues for the word "TABERNACLE"
We've had 14 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 15 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on February 27, 2025.
Definition of tabernacle
- n. - A slightly built or temporary habitation; especially, a tent.
- n. - A portable structure of wooden framework covered with curtains, which was carried through the wilderness in the Israelitish exodus, as a place of sacrifice and worship.
- n. - Hence, the Jewish temple; sometimes, any other place for worship.
- n. - Figuratively: The human body, as the temporary abode of the soul.
- n. - Any small cell, or like place, in which some holy or precious things was deposited or kept.
- n. - The ornamental receptacle for the pyx, or for the consecrated elements, whether a part of a building or movable.
- n. - A niche for the image of a saint, or for any sacred painting or sculpture.
- n. - Hence, a work of art of sacred subject, having a partially architectural character, as a solid frame resting on a bracket, or the like.
- n. - A tryptich for sacred imagery.
- n. - A seat or stall in a choir, with its canopy.
- n. - A boxlike step for a mast with the after side open, so that the mast can be lowered to pass under bridges, etc.
- v. i. - To dwell or reside for a time; to be temporary housed.
Referring Clues
- Choir site
- Service station?
- Place of worship
- Large church
- Mormon place of worship
- Name etched into a bracelet, possibly for a portable box
- A celebrant (anag) - place of worship
- Temple altar, perhaps, inlaid with nacre design
- Tent for the Ark of the Covenant
- A celebrant dancing around the foot of the mast
- Item of furniture with unusual nacre inlay found in temple
- A celebrant dancing in a place of worship
- Type of place of worship
- Salt Lake ___, broadcasting home for radio's "Music & the Spoken Word" since 1929
Last Seen In
- New York Times - February 27, 2025
- Family Time - December 16, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - October 08, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - October 08, 2022
- USA Today - August 14, 2022
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - December 02, 2017
- Guardian Quiptic - March 28, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - October 13, 2015
- Guardian Cryptic - December 18, 2012
- Guardian Quick - March 09, 2010
- Family Time - June 09, 2008
- Guardian Quick - May 11, 2008
- Guardian Cryptic - November 07, 2006
- New York Times - December 11, 2004
- New York Times - January 06, 2000