cathedral

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
  2. A large or important church building. broadly,informal
  3. A large, impressive, lofty, and/or important building or place of some other kind. figuratively
    — a cathedral of commerce
  4. A large buttressed structure built by certain termites.
形容词 adj.
  1. Relating to the office of a bishop or an archbishop. not-comparable

词形变化

cathedrals plural

词汇关系

衍生词
cathedral cactus cathedral ceiling cathedral church cathedral city cathedral close cathedraled cathedralesque Cathedral Falls cathedralic cathedralism cathedrallike cathedral mound cathedral termite Cathedraltown co-cathedral noncathedral procathedral pro-cathedral the cathedral and the bazaar Westminster Cathedral
相关词
archdiocese bishopric cathedra diocese

词源

词源 1
From Middle English cathedral, chathedral, cathiderall, from Old French [Term?], from Latin cathedrālis, from cathedra + -ālis, from Ancient Greek καθέδρα (kathédra, “chair of a teacher, throne”).
词源 2
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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