Usually means: Universal, broad, encompassing all Christians.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word catholic:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. Catholic, catholic: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Catholic, catholic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. catholic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. catholic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Catholic, catholic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Catholic, Catholic, catholic: Wordnik
  7. Catholic, catholic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Catholic, catholic: Wiktionary
  9. catholic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. catholic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. catholic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Catholic, catholic, the catholic: Dictionary.com
  13. catholic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. catholic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Catholic (album), Catholic (disambiguation), Catholic (term), Catholic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Catholic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. catholic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Catholic: Rhymezone
  19. catholic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. catholic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. catholic: Free Dictionary
  22. Catholic: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. catholic: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. Catholic: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. Catholic, catholic: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. catholic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  27. Catholic: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. catholic: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Catholic: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)
  2. Catholic: Idioms

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  3. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. catholic: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See catholically as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Universal; all-encompassing.
adjective:  (obsolete) Common or prevalent; especially universally prevalent.
adjective:  (usually of people and their feelings, tastes, etc.) Embracing all.
adjective:  (of medicines or remedies, obsolete) Universally applicable.
adjective:  Of universal human interest or use.
adjective:  Of the Western Christian church, as differentiated from e.g. the Orthodox church.
adjective:  Of the Roman Catholic church in particular.
noun:  A member of a Catholic church.
adjective:  Alternative letter-case form of Catholic. [Of the Western Christian church, as differentiated from e.g. the Orthodox church.]
adjective:  Alternative letter-case form of catholic [Universal; all-encompassing.]

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