tabernacle.

1. A container in which consecrated Eucharistic elements are kept in certain Christian traditions.

2. The portable sacred tent described in the Hebrew Bible as a place of worship and divine presence.

3. A building used for religious worship, particularly in some Protestant traditions.

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Words that belong together

• altar tabernacle
• locked tabernacle

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The altar tabernacle gleamed after every other lamp had gone out.

A key opened the locked tabernacle behind the carved panel.

Usage notes

Primary category: gothic. Forms: Singular tabernacle; plural tabernacles. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.