<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Of or relating to time.</li><li>Pertaining to or concerned with the present life or this world; worldly: temporal joys.</li><li>Enduring for a time only; temporary; transitory (eternal).</li><li>Grammar: of, relating to, or expressing time: a temporal adjective, such as recent, or a temporal adverb, such as recently.</li><li>Of or relating to the tenses of a verb.</li><li>Secular, lay, or civil, as opposed to ecclesiastical.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A temporal possession, estate, or the like; temporality.</li><li>Something that is temporal; a temporal matter or affair.</li></ul>