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cenacle

cenacle noun: a dining room, especially one on an upper floor (traditionally the room in which the Last Supper took place).

Noun

cenacle (plural cenacles)

  1. A dining room, especially one on an upper floor (traditionally the room in which the Last Supper took place).
    • With Mary in the cenacle waiting for the Holy Spirit In the Acts of the Apostles after listing the names of the eleven apostles, Luke continued with these words, so precious to Christians: […]1992, Raniero Cantalamessa, Mary: Mirror of the Church, Liturgical Press, →ISBN, page 143
  2. (broadly) A small circle or gathering of specialists (writers etc).
    • I remember an anecdote of a well-known French theorist, who was debating a point eagerly in his cenacle. It was objected against him that he had never experienced love.1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque
    Synonyms:
    circle, clique

Synonyms of cenacle

Forms of cenacle

pluralcenacles

Origin of cenacle

From Middle English cenacle, from Old French cenacle (modern French cénacle), from Latin cēnāculum (“dining room”).

Questions about cenacle

What does cenacle mean?
Cenacle means a dining room, especially one on an upper floor (traditionally the room in which the Last Supper took place).
What part of speech is cenacle?
Cenacle is a noun.
What is the plural of cenacle?
The plural of cenacle is cenacles.

Words near cenacle in the dictionary

  1. cempedaks
  2. cems
  3. CEN
  4. cen-
  5. Cena
  6. cenacle
  7. cenacles
  8. Cenade
  9. cenancestor
  10. cenancestors
  11. cenancestral

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