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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The principal church of a bishop's diocese, containing the episcopal throne.
  2. n. A large, important church.
  3. n. Something that resembles a cathedral, as in grandeur or authority.
  4. adj. Of, relating to, or containing a bishop's throne: a cathedral church.
  5. adj. Relating to or issuing from a chair of office or authority; authoritative.
  6. adj. Of, relating to, or resembling a cathedral: tall trees whose branches met to form cathedral arches over the path.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Containing a bishop's seat, or used especially for episcopal services; serving or adapted for use as a cathedral: as, a cathedral church.
  2. Pertaining to a cathedral; connected with or suggesting a cathedral; characteristic of cathedrals: as, a cathedral service; cathedral music; the cathedral walks of a forest.
  3. Emanating from or relating to a chair of office or official position; hence, having or displaying authority; authoritative.
  4. n. The principal church in a diocese, which is specially the church of the bishop: so called from the fact that it contains the episcopal chair or cathedra. Many cathedrals, particularly the French and Italian, furnish the most magnificent examples of the architecture of the middle ages. Those in England are among the most interesting, though, unlike the continental cathedrals, they were designed originally, almost without exception, not as metropolitan, but as monastic churches. The cut shows the arrangement of the various parts in Wells cathedral, one of the most beautiful in England. For the official establishment of a cathedral, see chapter, 2.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A big church building, central place for some area.
  2. n. The principal church of a bishop's diocese which contains an episcopal throne.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The principal church in a diocese, so called because in it the bishop has his official chair (Cathedra) or throne.
  2. adj. Pertaining to the head church of a diocese.
  3. adj. Emanating from the chair of office, as of a pope or bishop; official; authoritative.
  4. adj. Resembling the aisles of a cathedral.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. relating to or containing or issuing from a bishop's office or throne
  2. n. the principal Christian church building of a bishop's diocese
  3. n. any large and important church

Etymologies

  1. From cathedral church, from Late Latin ecclēsia cathedrālis ("church having a bishop's seat"), from Ancient Greek καθέδρα (kathedra, "chair of a teacher, throne"), from κατά (kata, "down") + ἕδρα (hedra, "seat"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Short for cathedral church, from Middle English cathedral, of a diocese, from Old French, from Medieval Latin cathedrālis, of a bishop's see, from Latin cathedra, chair; see cathedra. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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