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See also: cathédral
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English cathedral, chathedral, cathiderall, from Old French [Term?], from Latin cathedrālis, from cathedra + -ālis.
Adjective[edit]
cathedral (not comparable)
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
relating to the throne or the see of a bishop
Etymology 2[edit]
Ellipsis of cathedral church, from Middle English chirche cathederall, cathedrall chirch, calque of Late Latin ecclēsia cathedrālis (“church having a bishop's seat”), from Latin ecclēsia + cathedrālis. Displaced Old English hēafodċiriċe (literally “main church, head church”).
Noun[edit]
cathedral (plural cathedrals)
- The principal church of an archbishop's/bishop's archdiocese/diocese which contains an episcopal throne.
- (loosely or informally) A large or important church building.
- (figurative) A large, impressive, lofty, and/or important building or place of some other kind.
- a cathedral of commerce
- A large buttressed structure built by certain termites.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
big church building
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principal church of a bishop's diocese
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Etymology 3[edit]
Coined by political blogger Curtis Yarvin, writing as Mencius Moldbug.
Proper noun[edit]
the Cathedral or the cathedral
- (US politics, slang, Dark Enlightenment) A mainstream system or establishment in society, held to be liberal or leftist and to be working against the interests of the people or nation.
- 2019 May 14, Michael Malice, “The Strike” (chapter 3), in The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics[1], →ISBN, from third sentence of third paragraph:
- The reaction from the Cathedral—the press, the political establishment, and everyone else who shaped acceptable opinion—was quick and unanimous
- 2022 January 14, Rod Dreher, “Neckbeard Militias Are Not My Enemy”, in The American Conservative[2], archived from the original on 2022-04-15:
- This is why grown-up men and women in the Cathedral (to use the neoreactionary term for the Establishment) actually believe that the MAGA yahoos of January 6 nearly overthrew the US government.
- 2022 December 10, Ross Douthat, “A Political Theory of King Elon Musk”, in The New York Times[3], archived from the original on March 23, 2024:
- [Curtis Yarvin] is forthright in his belief that the present order — to his mind, an oligarchy governed by a complex of elite institutions (like this newspaper) that he calls “the Cathedral” — should be overthrown
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:cathedral.
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Old French cathedral, from Latin cathedrālis.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
cathedral
Descendants[edit]
- English: cathedral
References[edit]
- “cathēdrāl, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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