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Notre Dame

[ noh-truh deym, dahm, noh-ter ]

noun

  1. Also called Notre Dame de Paris [naw-t, r, uh, d, a, m d, uh, p, a, -, ree], a famous early gothic cathedral in Paris (started 1163).
  2. the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus.


Notre Dame

/ nɔtrə dam; ˈnəʊtrə ˈdɑːm; ˈnɒtrə /

noun

  1. the early Gothic cathedral of Paris, on the Île de la Cité: built between 1163 and 1257


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Notre Dame1

< French: our lady

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Example Sentences

Virginia Tech was coming off its most complete defensive performance of the season, a 62-51 win at Notre Dame on Wednesday.

Ninth-ranked Georgia and 10th-ranked Iowa State were both more likely to be the best than Notre Dame.

The other three teams in the playoff — Clemson, Alabama and Notre Dame — have played 11 times, including in conference championship games.

So while its 31-14 win Friday over decided underdog Notre Dame played out predictably, the Heisman Trophy candidates on its celestial offense played out dazzlingly.

The Cavaliers lost to Gonzaga last Saturday, then defeated Notre Dame on Wednesday before Friday’s postponement further disrupted their season.

“This is campaign activity,” said Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, a law professor and associate dean at the University of Notre Dame.

Both are graduate students in biology at the University of Notre Dame.

But a study out of Notre Dame this month appears to offer some support for the much-maligned tests.

He picked up an Easter lily which Geneviève had brought that morning from Notre Dame, and dropped it into the basin.

Reagan played George Gipp, the Notre Dame star who died young.

At all events, we have nothing but this minister-general between us and Notre-Dame.

The marquis, my master—over there in the little white house behind Notre-Dame.

The lists were appointed in the Isle of Notre Dame, then an unenclosed, uninhabited place.

It is a church much used by the poor—who even call it Notre Dame des Halles—but its music on festival days brings the rich too.

After leaving Notre-Dame we rode up one side of the river to Auteuil and down the other, frequently forced to make long detours.

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not put something past someoneNotre Dame de Paris, Cathedral of