English
Etymology
From cathedral church, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin ecclēsia cathedrālis (“church having a bishop's seat”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek καθέδρα (kathédra, “chair of a teacher, throne”), from κατά (katá, “down”) + ἕδρα (hédra, “seat”).
Pronunciation
Noun
cathedral (plural cathedrals)
- A big church building, central place for some area.
- The principal church of an archbishop's/bishop's archdiocese/diocese which contains an episcopal throne.
- A large buttressed structure built by certain termites.
Derived terms
Translations
principal church of a bishop's diocese
- Afrikaans: katedraal
- Albanian: katedrale (sq) f
- Arabic: كَاتِدْرَائِيَّة f (kātidrāʔiyya)
- Armenian: մայր տաճար (hy) (mayr tačar)
- Azerbaijani: kafedral
- Basque: katedral (eu)
- Belarusian: сабо́р m (sabór)
- Breton: iliz-veur f
- Bulgarian: катедра́ла f (katedrála)
- Catalan: catedral (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 大教堂 (zh) (dàjiàotáng); 主教座堂 (zhǔjiàozuòtáng)
- Corsican: cattidrale
- Czech: katedrála (cs) f
- Danish: domkirke (da) c, katedral c
- Dutch: kathedraal (nl) f
- Esperanto: katedralo
- Estonian: katedraal
- Finnish: tuomiokirkko (fi), katedraali (fi)
- French: cathédrale (fr) f
- Galician: catedral (gl) f, sé (gl) f
- Georgian: ტაძარი (ṭaʒari)
- German: Kathedrale (de) f, Dom (de) m
- Greek: μητρόπολη (el) f (mitrópoli), καθεδρικός ναός m (kathedrikós naós), επισκοπή (el) f (episkopí)
- Gujarati: કેથેડ્રલ (ketheḍral)
- Hebrew: קָתֶדרָלָה f (katedrala)
- Hindi: कैथेड्रल (kaitheḍral)
- Hungarian: székesegyház (hu), katedrális (hu), dóm (hu)
- Icelandic: dómkirkja (is) f
- Ido: katedralo (io)
- Indonesian: katedral (id)
- Irish: (historical) An Teampall Mór m, (since the end of the 18th century) ardeaglais f
- Italian: cattedrale (it) f, duomo (it) m
- Japanese: 大聖堂 (だいせいどう, daiseidō)
- Javanese: katedral
- Kazakh: собор (sobor)
- Khmer: ព្រះវិហារ (km) (preah vi’hie)
- Korean: 대성당 (ko) (daeseongdang) (大聖堂)
- Kyrgyz: собор (sobor)
- Lao: ໂບດໃຫຍ່ (bōt nyai)
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- Latvian: katedrāle
- Lithuanian: katedra (lt)
- Luxembourgish: Kathedral f, Doum m
- Macedonian: катедра́ла f (katedrála), со́борна црква f (sóborna crkva), со́борен храм m (sóboren hram)
- Malay: katedral, gereja besar
- Manx: ard-çhiamble m
- Mongolian: чогчин дуган (čogčin dugan)
- Norman: cathédrale f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: katedral (no) m, domkirke m or f
- Nynorsk: katedral m, domkyrkje f
- Occitan: catedrala (oc) f
- Persian: کلیسای جامع (fa) (kelisâ-ye jâme')
- Polish: katedra (pl) f
- Portuguese: catedral (pt) m
- Romanian: catedrală (ro) f
- Russian: собо́р (ru) m (sobór), кафедра́льный собо́р m (kafedrálʹnyj sobór)
- Scottish Gaelic: àrd-eaglais f, cathair-eaglais f, prìomh-eaglais f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: катедрала f, caбop m
- Roman: katedrala (sh) f, sabor (sh) m
- Sicilian: domu (scn) m
- Slovak: katedrála f
- Slovene: katedrala (sl) f
- Spanish: catedral (es) f
- Swedish: domkyrka (sv) c, katedral (sv) c
- Tagalog: katedral
- Tajik: собор (sobor)
- Telugu: కేథడ్రల్ (kēthaḍral)
- Thai: อาสนวิหาร (aa sŏn wíhăan)
- Turkish: katedral (tr), başkilise (tr)
- Turkmen: sobor, ybadathana
- Ukrainian: собо́р (uk) m (sobór)
- Urdu: کیتھیڈرل (kaitheḍral)
- Uzbek: sobor (uz), ibodathona
- Vietnamese: nhà thờ chính tòa, đại giáo đường
- Volapük: leglüg (vo)
- Welsh: eglwys gadeiriol (cy) f
- West Flemish: kateedroale f
- Yiddish: קאַטעדראַל f (katedral)
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Adjective
cathedral (not comparable)
- Relating to the throne or the see of a bishop
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