Tempe meaning

tĕmpē
(place) Valley of the Piniós River in NE Thessaly, Greece, between Mounts Olympus & Ossa: anciently regarded as sacred to Apollo.
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A city of south-central Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. It is the seat of Arizona State University (established 1885).
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(place) City in SC Ariz., on the Salt River: suburb of Phoenix.
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A city in Arizona.
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Origin of tempe

  • Named for the Vale of Tempe in northern Thessaly, Greece

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Tempe Sentence Examples

  • The Walannae flows into Lake Tempe, and, continued by the Jenrana (Tienrana), which discharges into the Gulf of Boni, is navigable for small boats; the Sadang, with many affluents, flows to the west coast, and is navigable by sanpans.

  • A narrow Cambrian sea must have extended across central Australia from the Kimberley Goldfield in the north-west, through Tempe Downs and the Macdonnell chain in central Australia, to the South Australian highlands, central Victoria at Mansfield, and northern Tasmania.

  • As Apollo's champion Hercules is Daphnephoros, and fights Cycnus and Amyntor to keep open the sacred way from Tempe to Delphi.

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