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cathedral

noun

Definition of cathedral

as in tower

a large, magnificent, or massive building the company didn't want just a new office building—it demanded a cathedral that proclaimed its place among the giants of finance

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Recent Examples of cathedral The tapestry was commissioned by William the Conqueror's half-brother, Bishop Odo of Bayeux, to celebrate the Norman victory in the Battle of Hastings and decorate his cathedral. — Lauren Frayer, NPR, 9 Sep. 2026 Walking through a historic cathedral in zip-off cargo pants and a neon-yellow souvenir shirt broadcasts your status as an outsider. — Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2026 After greeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the US envoy was taken on a tour of a cathedral in central Kyiv damaged in Russian attacks. — Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026 For more than a century, college football has inspired the building of vast concrete-and-steel on-campus cathedrals — only for the names on the blueprints to become historical footnotes. — Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cathedral

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Lomonaco arrived after the restaurant was closed for three years following the first terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 that killed six people and injured more than 1,000 but left the towers intact.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
Play spaces — including the centerpiece play structure with two domed towers — are accessible to wheelchair users via ramp.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2026

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When Meghan was a working royal, the palace essentially controlled her life and public image.

— Allison DeGrushe, StyleCaster, 5 Sep. 2026
Our home, a 3-story, 11-bedroom palace with with an arcade and a slide between floors three and two, couldn’t have been more perfect for our group.

— Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2026

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Among the most notable is the Acropolis in Athens with its iconic ruins of ancient civilization preserved as columned edifices, stone statues, and temple mounts.

— Jennifer Tzeses, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Sep. 2026
Peter Zumthor’s design hoists a serpentine platform atop pavilions that read like stout, truncated legs, making the edifice almost creaturely in its architectural stance.

— George Baker, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026

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