Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

high altar

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.80 in modern English

Syllables: high- al-tar
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The main altar in a church, situated on the main axis at the east of the chancel or choir.

Example Sentences

"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 Lewes line failed. The line was approved and, as if as an act of deliberate desecration and assertion of the railways' power, passed over the site of the high altar."

Inflected Forms

high altars (plural)

Questions

What does high altar mean?: The main altar in a church, situated on the main axis at the east of the chancel or choir.

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