Definition of Cathedral

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Cathedral

The principal church in a diocese, so called because in it the bishop has his official chair (Cathedra) or throne.

Pertaining to the head church of a diocese; as, a cathedral church; cathedral service.

Emanating from the chair of office, as of a pope or bishop; official; authoritative.

Resembling the aisles of a cathedral; as, cathedral walks.

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Cathedral Quotations

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
Frank Lloyd Wright

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
Virginia Woolf

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
H. L. Mencken

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
Robert Louis Stevenson

But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.
Minoru Yamasaki

I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral.
Michael W. Smith

Five days a week I drive from our home to the Episcopal Cathedral Center of Los Angeles where I have an office, my computer, and a wonderful sense of community - especially nurtured by the presence of several younger gay men and women who are good friends.
Malcolm Boyd

He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
Sinclair Lewis

Cathedral Translations

cathedral in Danish is katedral, domkirke
cathedral in Dutch is kathedraal, dom
cathedral in German is Kirche, Kathedrale, Dom
cathedral in Italian is cattedrale
cathedral in Norwegian is katedral, katedral, domkirke
cathedral in Portuguese is catedral
cathedral in Spanish is catedral
cathedral in Swedish is domkyrka, katedral

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