CATHEDRAL: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for CATHEDRAL?

Need another word that means the same as “cathedral”? Find 1 synonym and 30 related words for “cathedral” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Cathedral” are: duomo

Cathedral as a Noun

Definitions of "Cathedral" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “cathedral” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• The principal Christian church building of a bishop's diocese.
• Any large and important church.
• The principal church of a diocese, with which the bishop is officially associated.

Synonyms of "Cathedral" as a noun (1 Word)

duomo

The principal Christian church building of a bishop’s diocese.

Usage Examples of "Cathedral" as a noun

• St Paul's Cathedral.

Associations of "Cathedral" (30 Words)

abbess	The superior of a group of nuns.
abbey	A church that was formerly an abbey.
abbot	The superior of an abbey of monks.
apocrypha	14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status.
archdeacon	A senior Christian cleric (in the early Church a deacon, in the modern Anglican Church a priest) to whom a bishop delegates certain responsibilities.
augustinian	A Roman Catholic friar or monk belonging to one of the Augustinian monastic orders.
bishop	A chess piece typically with its top shaped like a mitre that can move in any direction along a diagonal on which it stands Each player starts the game with two bishops one moving on white squares and the other on black.
buddhist	One who follows the teachings of Buddha.
canon	A priest who is a member of a cathedral chapter. The biblical canon.
catholic	A member of a Catholic church. Catholic in one s tastes.
church	Take a woman who has recently given birth to church for a service of thanksgiving. Some people go to church every Sunday.
cloister	Seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister. He was inclined more to the cloister than the sword.
convent	A school attached to and run by a convent. Maria entered the convent at the age of eighteen.
dean	The head of a university faculty or department or of a medical school. He is the dean of foreign correspondents.
diocese	A district under the pastoral care of a bishop in the Christian Church.
doyen	A man who is the senior member of a group. He became the doyen of British physicists.
gothic	Characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German. Gothic novels like Frankenstein.
holy	A sacred place of pilgrimage. Saints and holy men.
minster	Any of certain cathedrals and large churches; originally connected to a monastery. York Minster.
monastery	The residence of a religious community.
monastic	A monk or other follower of a monastic rule. She set her things round the monastic student bedroom.
nunnery	The convent of a community of nuns.
parish	(in the Christian Church) a small administrative district typically having its own church and a priest or pastor. A parish councillor.
priest	Ordain to the priesthood. The priest celebrated mass at a small altar off the north transept.
priory	A small monastery or nunnery that is governed by a prior or prioress.
pyx	In the UK a box at the Royal Mint in which specimen gold and silver coins are deposited to be tested annually at the trial of the pyx by members of the Goldsmiths Company.
rector	(in the Roman Catholic Church) a priest in charge of a church or of a religious institution.
religion	A strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny. He was raised in the Baptist religion.
saint	Formally recognize as a saint canonize. A place dedicated to a seventh century saint.
theology	The rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth. In Christian theology God comes to be conceived as Father and Son.