CATHEDRAL


Meaning of CATHEDRAL in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a cathedral city (= with a cathedral )

He went to university in the cathedral city of Durham.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

catholic

Looming over all was the great green dome of the Roman Catholic cathedral .

But never mind all those skulls lined up at the intersection of the Aztec pyramid and the Catholic cathedral on stage.

Few were built when the nineteenth-century wave of Roman Catholic churches and cathedrals began.

gothic

In Gothic cathedrals the light flows up to dominate the downward flow of masonry.

The Gothic cathedrals were similarly designed in that sense.

The Gothic cathedral façade was here the supreme vehicle.

It was a one-story structure, but only if you think of a Gothic cathedral as one story.

Moreover, in the building of the great Gothic cathedrals many new devices were introduced, including flying buttresses.

She stripped away the outer shell brick by brick, and massaged the essence of the structure, fashioning a gothic cathedral .

The establishment of the Gothic cathedral pattern began with the building of the Cathedral of Paris in 1163.

Exeter, 30 miles away, is an attractive city with a splendid Gothic cathedral .

great

The great cathedrals and churches are therefore only copies from those in the main centres of civilisation.

Even this great cathedral will become a museum and mausoleum the day we lose our confidence in the resurrection.

Why else would the Oldenburgs have visited this great cathedral if not to check it for security?

At Cologne we turned for home, circling the great cathedral at what felt like an angle of forty five degrees.

This site is next to our great national cathedral - the very heart of the capital city.

Moreover, in the building of the great Gothic cathedrals many new devices were introduced, including flying buttresses.

Life and its processes, the life around the great cathedral , must flow on.

Now it is only a small island with a few houses and the great cathedral with its accompanying church, S. Fosca.

medieval

Along the waterways was carried most of the stone required to build our medieval cathedrals .

The south-facing house is situated in one of the oldest streets in Ely and boasts superb views of the medieval cathedral .

The capital of the region is Elgin with its ruined medieval cathedral .

Easily Accessible: Ely is an ancient market town famous for its magnificent medieval cathedral and stained glass museum.

new

Parishioners now have raised enough money to launch construction of the new cathedral .

For the remainder of his life he was to be closely associated with the building of Salisbury's new cathedral .

The Rodrigue house was only twelve blocks from the new cathedral .

Later he would design a window for the new cathedral .

Said we were lucky being high on the hill like the new cathedral on St James's Mount.

The majority of new churches and cathedrals were monastic settlements.

It was destroyed by fire in 1045 and a new cathedral was begun soon after.

romanesque

It was rebuilt on the foundations of an earlier Romanesque cathedral in the early thirteenth century and largely completed by 1237.

Fifteen miles north of Cambridge is the splendid Romanesque cathedral at Ely.

It replaced a Romanesque cathedral on the site and was begun in 1275.

■ NOUN

church

During the next few years he drew up a similar body of monastic observances for use in his cathedral church .

Elsewhere he renewed his contacts with Bishop Jocelin of Wells, then in the midst of rebuilding the cathedral church in Wells.

In 1040 the Normans took over the area and its great cathedral churches date from the succeeding 100 years.

city

Salisbury, quiet cathedral city , the county town of Wiltshire near to which is the village in which Mr Pecksniff lives.

Within a diocese charity schools were more likely to be found near the cathedral city than in outlying regions.

We started with breakfast in St David's, the smallest cathedral city in Britain.

Then it follows a former railway line to Woodhall Spa before crossing fenland on its way to the cathedral city of Lincoln.

The cathedral cities of York and Lincoln are both within an hour's drive.

His support may have been determined by the presence of Gundovald's army in his cathedral city .

organist

Yet a link was sometimes provided by music, where the cathedral organist was involved with diocesan music festivals and other events.

Some cathedral organists have developed considerable liturgical flair and some have a good grasp of theology.

Consequently many cathedral organists find themselves occupied increasingly with diocesan work.

One college involves the local cathedral organist on a regular basis.

Within living memory there have been cathedral organists who have taught their skills to articled pupils.

Relatively few cathedral organists today are also composers.

Many of them expressed appreciation of local cathedral organists and parish musicians who provide a lead and incentive to others.

■ VERB

build

Along the waterways was carried most of the stone required to build our medieval cathedrals .

Miserably behind in its contribution to the building of the cathedral .

In Nogykanizsa, half population is wipe out by plague only one years after building the cathedral .

Shortly thereafter they began building about it the cathedral and an adjoining monastery.

On the higher land between the rivers a castle stronghold was built and a cathedral .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But the Commission considers that the role played by music in the worship of parish and cathedral ought not to be confused.

He cleared his mind and went farther into the vast cathedral .

Kinks in the tail now and then, like the great square stone fortress cathedral of St Giles.

The cathedral has the traditional triforium arcade with two round arches under one larger one per bay and clerestory windows above.

The wind moved through the doorless portal of the cathedral .

There are also a number of gold and silver pieces from the cathedral treasury.

Upon the impressive foundations that Galileo had laid, Newton was able to erect a cathedral of superb grandeur.

We started with breakfast in St David's, the smallest cathedral city in Britain.

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