Definition of catholic Catholic

/kæˈθlɪk/ - [kathlik] - Cath•o•lic

We found 14 definitions of catholic from 5 different sources.

What does catholic mean?

WordNet

Noun
catholic - a member of a Catholic church
		christian a religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who is a member of a Christian denomination
		catholic church any of several churches claiming to have maintained historical continuity with the original Christian Church
		anglican catholic a member of the Anglican Church who emphasizes its Catholic character
		greek catholic a member of the Greek Orthodox Church
		roman catholic the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy
		uniat, uniate, uniate christian a member of the Uniat Church
Adjective
catholic - of or relating to or supporting Catholicism; "the Catholic Church"
catholic - free from provincial prejudices or attachments; "catholic in one's tastes"
		broad-minded inclined to respect views and beliefs that differ from your own; "a judge who is broad-minded but even-handed"

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Wiktionary

catholic (Adjective)
Universal; all-encompassing.
catholic (Adjective)
Pertaining to all kinds of people and their range of tastes, proclivities etc. ; liberal.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

catholic (a.)
Universal or general; as, the catholic faith.
catholic (a.)
Not narrow-minded, partial, or bigoted; liberal; as, catholic tastes.
catholic (a.)
Of or pertaining to, or affecting the Roman Catholics; as, the Catholic emancipation act.
catholic (n.)
A person who accepts the creeds which are received in common by all parts of the orthodox Christian church.
catholic (n.)
An adherent of the Roman Catholic church; a Roman Catholic.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

catholic
Of the Roman Catholic church.
catholic
A follower of Catholicism.
catholic
Being a follower Catholicism.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

catholic
kath′ol-ik, adj. universal: general, embracing the whole body of Christians: orthodox, as opposed to heterodox and sectarian—applied esp. to the Christian Church before the great schism between the East and the West: liberal, the opposite of exclusive: relating to the name claimed by its adherents for the Church of Rome as the alleged sole visible representative of the church founded by Christ and His apostles—the characteristic marks of the Catholic Church being universality, antiquity, unity: relating to the Roman Catholics.—n. an adherent of the R.C. Church.—v.t. Cathol′icise, to make Catholic.—ns. Cathol′icism, Catholic′ity, universality: liberality or breadth of view: the tenets of the R.C. Church; Cathol′icon, a universal remedy or panacea; Cathol′icos, the Patriarch of Armenia.—Catholic creditor (law of Scot.), one whose debt is secured over several or the whole subjects belonging to the debtor—e.g. over two or more heritable estates; Catholic emancipation, the relief of the Roman Catholics from certain vexatious penal regulations and restrictions, granted in 1829; Catholic or General epistles, the name given to certain epistles in the canon addressed not to particular churches or individuals, but either to the Church universal or to a large and indefinite circle of readers—originally only 1 John and 1 Peter, but, as early as the 3d century, also James, Jude, 2 Peter, 2 and 3 John; Catholic king, a title given specially to the king of Spain.—Old Catholics, the title assumed by a number of Catholics who at Munich protested against the new dogma of the personal infallibility of the pope in all ex cathedrâ deliverances proclaimed by the Vatican Council in 1870—now a considerable communion or church in Germany and Switzerland. [Gr. katholicos, universal—kata, throughout, holos, the whole.]