1. Adjective
Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery.
2. Noun
Of or pertaining to time, that is, to the present life, or this world; secular, as distinguished from sacred or eternal.
3. Noun
Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical; as, temporal power; temporal courts.
4. Noun
Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; -- used chiefly in the plural.
5. Noun
the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the time of the state or action denoted by the verb
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