high altar

English

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.
   • 2022 January 12, Dr. Joseph Brennan, “Castles: ruined and redeemed by rail”, in RAIL, number 948, page 57:

     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.

Translations

main altar in a church

• Catalan: altar major m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 主祭台 (zhǔjìtái)

• Finnish: pääalttari
• French: maître-autel (fr) m
• German: Hochaltar (de) m
• Greek: Αγία Τράπεζα (el) f (Agía Trápeza)
• Hungarian: főoltár (hu)
• Icelandic: háaltari n
• Manx: ard-altyr m
• Polish: ołtarz główny m
• Portuguese: altar-mor (pt) m
• Swedish: högaltare (sv) n