Meaning: a temple

寺院（ジイン）: a (Buddhist) temple
寺社（ジシャ）: Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines
社寺（シャジ）: shrines and temples
東寺（トウジ）: Toji (a temple in Kyoto)
国分寺（コクブンジ）: a provincial temple established by the state, also the name of a city in Tokyo

お寺（おてら）: a (Buddhist) temple
寺子屋（てらこや）: a ‘temple school’, a private elementary school (in the Edo period)
山寺（やまでら）: a temple on a mountain, a mountain temple
尼寺（あまでら）: a convent
清水寺（きよみずでら）: Kiyomizudera (a temple in Kyoto)

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