different between tabernacle vs cathedral

English

Etymology

From Middle English tabernacle (14th century), from Old French tabernacle, from Latin tabern?culum (“tent, booth, shed”), the diminutive of taberna (“hut, shed”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?tæb?nækl?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?tæb?nækl?/
• Hyphenation: tab?er?nac?le

Noun

tabernacle (plural tabernacles)

1. Any temporary dwelling; a hut, tent, or booth.
2. (biblical) The portable tent used before the construction of the temple, where the shekinah (presence of God) was believed to dwell.
3. (by extension) The Jewish Temple at Jerusalem (as continuing the functions of the earlier tabernacle).
4. Any portable shrine used in heathen or idolatrous worship.
5. A sukkah, the booth or 'tabernacle' used during the Jewish Feast of Sukkot.
6. A small ornamented cupboard or box used for the reserved sacrament of the Eucharist, normally located in an especially prominent place in a Roman Catholic church.
   • 1997, Catechism of the Catholic Church, Part II, Section 1183:

     The tabernacle is to be situated "in churches in a most worthy place with the greatest honor." The dignity, placing, and security of the Eucharistic tabernacle should foster adoration before the Lord really present in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar.

7. (US) A temporary place of worship, especially a tent, for a tent meeting, as with a venue for revival meetings.
   • 1927, Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry, Chapter 13:

     It was over these innocent necessary precautions that the local committees always showed their meanness. They liked giving over only one contribution to the evangelist, but they wanted nothing said about it till they themselves had been taken care of--till the rent of the hall or the cost of building a tabernacle, the heat, the lights, the advertising, and other expenses had been paid.

8. (by extension) Any house of worship; used especially of Mormon churches.
9. (figuratively) Any abode or dwelling place, or especially the human body as the temporary dwelling place of the soul, or life.
10. (nautical) A hinged device allowing for the easy folding of a mast 90 degrees from perpendicular, as for transporting the boat on a trailer, or passing under a bridge.

Derived terms

• tabernacular
• tin tabernacle

Translations

Verb

tabernacle (third-person singular simple present tabernacles, present participle tabernacling, simple past and past participle tabernacled)

1. (intransitive) To dwell; to abide for a time.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.b??.nakl/

Noun

tabernacle m (plural tabernacles)

1. tabernacle
2. (Quebec) Alternative form of tabarnak

Further reading

• “tabernacle” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k???i?.d??l/

Etymology 1

From Middle English cathedral, chathedral, cathiderall, from Old French [Term?], from Latin cathedr?lis, from cathedra +? -?lis.

Adjective

cathedral (not comparable)

1. Relating to the throne or the see of a bishop.

Related terms

• cathedratic

Translations

Etymology 2

Ellipsis of cathedral church, from Middle English chirche cathederall, cathedrall chirch, calque of Late Latin eccl?sia cathedr?lis (“church having a bishop's seat”), from Latin eccl?sia +? cathedr?lis.

Noun

cathedral (plural cathedrals)

1. A big church building, central place for some area.
2. The principal church of an archbishop's/bishop's archdiocese/diocese which contains an episcopal throne.
3. A large buttressed structure built by certain termites.

Derived terms

• cathedral ceiling
• cathedral termite

Translations