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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 Here were once waterfront villas, a cathedral, a busy market frequented by tourists. — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026 One of Lichtenstein’s takes on Monet in this show features the cathedral buried beneath a matrix of black dots set atop a deep blue background, in what may count as an allusion to Ad Reinhardt’s blue-on-blue abstractions of the ’50s. — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2026 In the time since, the show has traveled to nearly 30 cathedrals across Europe and the Americas, selling just over 2 million tickets. — Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 1 Oct. 2026 Pope Francis had refused repeatedly to make a proper state visit to France during his 12-year pontificate and pointedly refused to join the inauguration of the rebuilt Notre Dame cathedral in 2024. — Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cathedral

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The Club, a 43-story tower classified as a multi-family residential condo, does not have a Certificate of Use to run as a condo-hotel, an omission first revealed by the Miami Herald.

— Linda Robertson Updated October 22, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026
Galleria West will have three towers with a total of 1,163 residential units, including 690 market-rate residences and 473 workforce housing units.

— Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026

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Erdogan and Carney then proceeded to a palace building for bilateral talks.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
Lenzner, who used to run communications at the Motion Picture Association and previously tried to revive the Uptown Theater movie palace in Cleveland Park, knew that opening a single-screen theater would be a challenge financially and operationally.

— Rudi Greenberg, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2026

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In this square was a century-old courthouse, and surrounding that, a Woolworth’s, department stores and mining company offices whose names are still chiseled into stone edifices.

— Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
The towering marble columns in the two-story lobby and the old-fashioned elevators with dials tracking the cars’ locations are but two of the many elements retained from the days when the edifice, built in 1911, was the Union National Bank.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2026

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