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cathedral

/kəˈθidɹəl/ sustantivo B2

En español: catedral

  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. (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.

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.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 23 · C1
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.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 26 · C1

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