| a. | 1. | (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the temple or temples;
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| 1. | Of or pertaining to time, that is, to the present life, or this world; secular, as distinguished from sacred or eternal. | |||||||
| 2. | Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical;
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| n. | 1. | Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; - used chiefly in the plural. | ||||||
| Noun | 1. | temporal - the semantic role of the noun phrase that designating the time of the state or action denoted by the verb Synonyms: temporal role |
| Adj. | 1. | temporal - not eternal; "temporal matters of but fleeting moment"- F.D.Roosevelt |
| 2. | temporal - of or relating to or limited by time; "temporal processing"; "temporal dimensions"; "temporal and spacial boundaries"; "music is a temporal art" | |
| 3. | temporal - of or relating to the temples (the sides of the skull behind the orbit); "temporal bone" | |
| 4. | temporal - of the material world; "temporal possessions of the church" | |
| 5. | temporal - concerned with secular rather than sacred matters; "lords temporal and spiritual" Synonyms: worldly | |
| 6. | temporal - of this earth or world; "temporal joys"; "our temporal existence" |