adjective
cathedral
CEFR B2
relating to or containing or issuing from a bishop's office or throne
In a sentence
Six example sentences with cathedral, each labelled with its topic.
Only a cathedral church may hold the ancient stone chair, which is why the nave was widened twice.
Architecture
Lincoln gained cathedral rank in ten seventy two, and the bishop moved his household there within a year.
History
The cathedral choir sings at every ordination, a duty that comes with serving the diocese's chief church.
Music
Wells is the smallest cathedral city in England, and the bishop's moated palace sits just beside the church.
Travel
Until the late nineteenth century an English town became a city only by gaining cathedral status, a custom later abandoned.
Politics
The cathedral treasury displays the bishop's crozier and ring, symbols of the office the building was raised to house.
Art
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