cathedral

1. 1.

   any large and important church

   Broaderchurch

   NarrowerChartres Cathedralminster

   Partscathedra
2. 2.

   the principal Christian church building of a bishop's diocese

   Synonymsduomo

   Broaderchurch

1. 1.

   relating to or containing or issuing from a bishop's office or throne

   “a cathedral church”

Other forms of cathedral

plural

cathedrals·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cathedral

What does cathedral mean?

cathedral means "any large and important church". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cathedral?

cathedral has 3 syllables: ca-the-dral. The stress falls on "the". In IPA it is /kəˈθidɹəl/.

What is another word for cathedral?

Close synonyms include duomo. 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 cathedral a common word?

cathedral is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.