Catholic - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈkæθlɪk|  American pronunciation of the word catholic
Brit.  |ˈkæθ(ə)lɪk|  British pronunciation of the word catholic

noun

- a member of a Catholic church

adjective

- free from provincial prejudices or attachments
catholic in one's tastes

Extra examples

She is a novelist who is catholic in her interests.

...a museum director with catholic tastes in art...

Science is truly catholic.

She has catholic tastes (=likes a lot of different things).

He is a member of the Catholic Church.

His Catholic upbringing informs all his writing.

He was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest.

Priests chanted the Catholic Mass in Latin.

...dissident elements within the Catholic Church...

...the Catholic dogma of the bodily assumption of the Virgin Mary...

Bresson is par excellence the Catholic film-maker.

The late king had been at heart a Roman Catholic.

I was brought up a Catholic.

Catholic priests are required to be celibate.

Like most Catholic children, he had heard stories of Ireland from the cradle.

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