cathedral
Noun · AdjectiveOpen English WordNet
Noun (2)cathedrals
- any large and important churchType of church, church buildingKinds minsterExamples Chartres CathedralParts cathedra, bishop's throne
- the principal Christian church building of a bishop's dioceseSynonyms: duomoType of church, church building
Adjective (1)
- relating to or containing or issuing from a bishop's office or throne“a cathedral church”Relating to bishop's throne
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Translations
Noun cathedral, bishop's church
- Spanish
- catedral
- French
- cathédrale
- German
- Dom
- Italian
- cattedrale
- Portuguese
- catedral
- Turkish
- katedral
- Russian
- собо́р sobór
- Arabic
- كَاتِدْرَائِيَّة kātidrāʔiyya
- Chinese
- 大教堂 dàjiàotáng
- Japanese
- 大聖堂 daiseidō
34 more languages
- Dutch
- kathedraal
- Polish
- katedra
- Swedish
- katedral
- Greek
- καθεδρικός ναός kathedrikós naós
- Korean
- 대성당 daeseongdang
- Indonesian
- katedral
- Vietnamese
- nhà thờ chính tòa
- Hungarian
- katedrális
- Portuguese (PT)
- catedral
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 大教堂 dàjiàotáng
- Albanian
- katedrale
- Breton
- iliz-veur
- Catalan
- catedral
- Corsican
- cattidrale
- Czech
- katedrála
- Danish
- domkirke
- Esperanto
- katedralo
- Estonian
- katedraal
- Finnish
- tuomiokirkko
- Georgian
- საკათედრო ტაძარი saḳatedro ṭaʒari
- Hebrew
- קָתֶדרָלָה katedrala
- Icelandic
- dómkirkja
- Kurdish
- katedral
- Latvian
- katedrāle
- Lithuanian
- katedra
- Norwegian
- katedral
- Romanian
- catedrală
- Scottish Gaelic
- àrd-eaglais
- Serbo-Croatian
- katedrala
- Slovak
- katedrála
- Slovenian
- katedrala
- Swahili
- kanisa kuu
- Welsh
- cadeirlan
- Yiddish
- קאַטעדרע katedre
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: LL. cathedralis (sc. ecclesia): cf. F. cathédrale. See Cathedra.
The principal church in a diocese, so called because in it the bishop has his official chair (Cathedra) or throne.
Origin: LL. cathedralis: cf. F. cathédral.
1. Pertaining to the head church of a diocese; as, a cathedral church; cathedral service.
2. Emanating from the chair of office, as of a pope or bishop; official; authoritative.
Now, what solemnity can be more required for the pope to make a cathedral determination of an article!— Taylor, Jeremy
3. Resembling the aisles of a cathedral; as, cathedral walks. Alexander Pope
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
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