Library / English Dictionary

CATHEDRAL

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any large and important church

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cathedral" is a kind of...):

church; church building (a place for public (especially Christian) worship)

Meronyms (parts of "cathedral"):

bishop's throne; cathedra (a throne that is the official chair of a bishop)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cathedral"):

minster (any of certain cathedrals and large churches; originally connected to a monastery)

Instance hyponyms:

Chartres Cathedral (a Gothic cathedral in northern France; built in 13th century)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The principal Christian church building of a bishop's diocese

Synonyms:

cathedral; duomo

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cathedral" is a kind of...):

church; church building (a place for public (especially Christian) worship)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or containing or issuing from a bishop's office or throne

Example:

a cathedral church

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

cathedra (a throne that is the official chair of a bishop)

Derivation:

cathedra (a throne that is the official chair of a bishop)

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 Context examples: 

I see myself passing on among the novelties of foreign towns, palaces, cathedrals, temples, pictures, castles, tombs, fantastic streets—the old abiding places of History and Fancy—as a dreamer might; bearing my painful load through all, and hardly conscious of the objects as they fade before me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)