Usually means: Large church, bishop's official seat.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word cathedral:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. cathedral: Merriam-Webster
  2. cathedral: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cathedral: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cathedral: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cathedral: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cathedral, cathedral: Wordnik
  7. cathedral: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cathedral: Wiktionary
  9. cathedral: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cathedral: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cathedral: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. cathedral: Dictionary.com
  13. cathedral (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cathedral: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Cathedral: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cathedral: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cathedral: Rhymezone
  19. cathedral: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cathedral: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. cathedral: FreeDictionary.org
  22. cathedral: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. cathedral: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. cathedral: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. cathedral: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cathedral: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cathedral: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  3. cathedral: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cathedral: Catholic Encyclopedia
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cathedral: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. cathedral: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. National Glass Association Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See cathedrals as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Relating to the office of a bishop or an archbishop.
noun:  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.
noun:  (loosely or informally) A large or important church building.
noun:  (figurative) A large, impressive, lofty, and/or important building or place of some other kind.
noun:  A large buttressed structure built by certain termites.
noun:  (US politics, slang, Dark Enlightenment and libertarianism) The mainstream system or establishment in society, regarded as liberal or leftist.
noun:  (rare) Alternative letter-case form of the Cathedral.

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