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tempe
/ˈtɛmpi/
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What does tempe mean?
noun
- Alternative form of tempeh.
proper noun
- A city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States.
- A suburb in Inner West council area, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
More meanings (1)
proper noun
- The Vale of Tempe; (by extension) a beautiful valley; any delightful rural spot.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈtɛmpi/
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The place is in strength not inferior to Tempe, though it lacks the trees and green woods, and the pleasant meadows and walks that adorn Tempe.
Near Tempe a still more significant arrangement was noticed.
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The Middle River gracefully winds through this Vale of Tempe, over a sandy bottom, sometimes sparkling in shallows, and then gently reposing in the broad bends of the grassy banks.
The new Vale of Tempe may be a gaunt waste in Thule; human souls may find themselves in closer and closer harmony with external things wearing a sombreness distasteful to our race when it was young.
Deucalion's deluge, in its later forms at any rate, is obviously coloured by Semitic tradition; but both Greek stories, in their origin, Sir James Frazer would trace to local conditions--the one suggested by the Gorge of Tempe in Thessaly, the other explaining the existence of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles.