Meaning

4 senses
  1. The principal church serving as the office (and some as place of residence) of an archdiocese's/a diocese's archbishop/bishop which is symbolized by an episcopal throne known as the cathedra.

    The bishop presided over the ceremony from his seat in the cathedral.

    Bischofskirche, Dom, Domkirche

    собо́рsobór, кафедра́льный собо́рkafedrálʹnyj sobór

    собо́рsobór

    the principal Christian church building of a bishop's diocese

  2. (broadly, informal)A large or important church building.

    Bischofskirche, Dom, Domkirche

    собо́рsobór

    собо́рsobór

    any large and important church

  3. (figuratively)A large, impressive, lofty, and/or important building or place of some other kind.

    a cathedral of commerce

  4. A large buttressed structure built by certain termites.

Examples

99 sentences
  1. He built an exact replica of Notre Dame Cathedral.

    deEr baute die Notre-Dame-Kathedrale exakt nach. — Yorwba

  2. Where is the cathedral located?

    Де знаходиться собор? — deniko

    ruГде находится собор? — marafon

    deWo befindet sich die Kathedrale? — mayabe

  3. Mary is in the cathedral.

    Мері в соборі. — Ahha

  4. Every city has an imposing cathedral.

  5. The cathedral's clock just struck three.

    ruСоборные часы только что пробили три. — Wezel

    deDie Glocke der Kathedrale schlug soeben drei. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
church serving as the office of the diocese's bishop and archdiocese's archbishop:
Русский
By meaning 1
church serving as the office of the diocese's bishop and archdiocese's archbishop:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
church serving as the office of the diocese's bishop and archdiocese's archbishop:

Origin

Ellipsis of cathedral church, from Middle English chirche cathederall, cathedrall chirch,

Ellipsis of cathedral church, from Middle English chirche cathederall, cathedrall chirch, calque of Late Latin ecclēsia cathedrālis (“church serving as the bishop's or archbishop's office”), from Latin ecclēsia + cathedrālis. Displaced Old English hēafodċiriċe (literally “main church, head church”).

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