cathedral
/kəˈθidɹəl/ noun B2- 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.
- A large or important church building.
- 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.
Plural cathedrals
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Below the boughs the air was full of a purple twilight and far ahead a glimpse of painted sunset sky shone like a great rose window at the end of a cathedral aisle.
He was twenty-two years old; he considered architecture to be truly an art; and he honestly believed—though he would not have dared to admit it in New York—that the Flatiron Building was inferior in design to the great cathedral in Milan.
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