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high altars

high altars is the plural of high altar.

Meaning of high altar

Noun

high altar (plural high altars)

  1. The main altar in a church, situated on the main axis at the east of the chancel or choir.
    • In the same year as the Furness objection, sadder tidings befell St Pancras Priory at Lewes, in East Sussex. Despite it having the distinction of being the earliest Cluniac monastery in Great Britain, petitions to prevent the Brighton Lewes & Hastings Railway from imposing on its site with its...2022 January 12, Dr. Joseph Brennan, “Castles: ruined and redeemed by rail”, in RAIL, number 948, page 57

Questions about high altars

What is high altars the plural of?
High altars is the plural of high altar.

Words near high altars in the dictionary

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  2. High Abbotside
  3. high adventure
  4. High Alemannic
  5. high altar
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  7. high and dry
  8. high and low
  9. High and Low Bishopside
  10. high and mighties
  11. high and mighty

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