high altar

1. 1.

   the main altar in a church

   Broaderaltar

Questions about high altar

What does high altar mean?

high altar means "the main altar in a church".

Is high altar a common word?

high altar 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.