cathedra

Questions about cathedra

What does cathedra mean?

cathedra means "a throne that is the official chair of a bishop".

How many syllables are in cathedra?

cathedra has 3 syllables and divides as ca-the-dra under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for cathedra?

Close synonyms include bishop's throne. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cathedra a common word?

cathedra is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.