Crossword clues for nave
nave
- Path to the altar
- Approach to the altar
- Parishioner's place
- Cathedral center
- Central area of a church
- St. Patrick's section
- Principal church area
- Pew's place
- Church's central section
- Church passage
- Church midsection
- Chancel neighbor
- Place for pews
- Pew location
- Part of an abbey
- Narthex's neighbor
- Altar approach
- Place for a congregation
- Congregation area
- Central church section
- Cathedral or church part
- Apse neighbor
- Worshippers' section
- Where parishioners sit
- Place for the masses?
- Main church section
- Main cathedral area
- Congregation's location
- Church's main section
- Church's main area
- Central area in a church
- Cathedral congregation's area
- Where the pews are
- Synagogue section
- St. Peter's portion
- Spot for the groom and ushers, say
- Section for Masses
- Section adjacent to a chancel
- Prayer's place
- Place for parishioners
- Pews' setting
- Pews' locale
- Pew place
- Part of St. Patrick's
- One end of the narthex
- Narthex-to-chancel area
- Mass-exodus starting point
- Mass seating area
- Main church part
- Its ceiling may be vaulted
- It may border the chancel
- From the entrance to the apse
- Congregational space
- Congregation's area
- Congregation locale
- Congregation holder
- Church's principal longitudinal area
- Church's center
- Chapel's hall
- Central church part
- Cathedral sitting area
- Cathedral seating area
- Basilica aisle
- Area with pews
- Area lit by clerestory windows
- Architectural term that literally means "ship"
- Area in front of a chancel
- Church part
- Where the congregation congregates
- Pew locale
- Wheel hub
- Narthex neighbor
- Pew area
- It borders the chancel
- Central church area
- Section flanked by aisles
- Congregational area
- Pews' place
- Church section
- Where the congregation sits
- Where the laity sits
- Basilica part
- Church center
- Narthex end
- View from the pulpit
- Basilica's center
- Place for a mass meeting?
- Flock's area
- One end of a narthex
- Place for prayer
- Part of a basilica
- Church area with pews
- Main seating area
- Hub of a wheel
- Area next to the narthex
- Place to pray
- Congregation location
- Basilica center
- Center of a cathedral
- Place for a flock
- Mass gathering place?
- Cathedral area
- Mass gathering site
- Congregation's place
- Main part of a church's interior
- What the transept transects
- Where a congregation congregates
- Flock gathering place
- The central area of a church
- Basilica section
- Part of Notre Dame
- Main part of a cathedral
- Section near the narthex
- Cathedral part
- It's probably filled on Easter
- Section of Westminster Abbey
- Part of St. Patrick's Cathedral
- Part of a church
- Main church area
- One of five at St. Peter's
- Wheel center
- Part of St. Peter's
- What a narthex leads to
- Cathedral section
- Apse's neighbor
- Main body of a church
- Central part of a church
- Rotter does away with king in cathedral area
- Church feature
- Wheel part
- Basilica area
- Basilica feature
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
nave \nave\ (n[=a]v), n. [AS. nafu; akin to D. naaf, G. nabe, OHG. naba, Icel. n["o]f, Dan. nav, Sw. naf, Skr. n[=a]bhi nave and navel: cf. L. umbo boss of a shield. [root]260. Cf. Navel.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"main part of a church," 1670s, from Medieval Latin navem (nominative navis) "nave of a church," from Latin navis "ship" (see naval), on some fancied resemblance in shape.
"hub of a wheel," Old English nafu, from Proto-Germanic *nabo- (cognates: Old Saxon naba, Old Norse nöf, Middle Dutch nave, Dutch naaf, Old High German naba, German Nabe), perhaps connected with the root of navel on notion of centrality (compare Latin umbilicus "navel," also "the end of a roller of a scroll," Greek omphalos "navel," also "the boss of a shield").
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context architecture English) The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances. Etymology 2
n. 1 A hub of a wheel. 2 (context obsolete English) The navel.
WordNet
n. the central area of a church
Wikipedia
In Romanesque and Gothic Christian abbey, cathedral, basilica and church architecture, the nave is the main body of the church. It provides the central approach to the high altar.
The nave extends from the entry—which may have a separate vestibule (the narthex)—to the chancel and may be flanked by lower side-aisles separated from the nave by an arcade. If the aisles are high and of a width comparable to the central nave, the structure is sometimes said to have three naves.
The term nave is from medieval Latin navis (ship). A ship was an early Christian symbol. The term may also have been suggested by the keel shape of the vaulting of a church. In many Scandinavian and Baltic countries a model ship is commonly found hanging in the nave of a church, and in some languages the same word means both 'nave' and 'ship', as for instance Danish skib or Swedish skepp.
The Nave is a river in France, located in the department of Pas-de-Calais. It has its source in Nédonchel, then flows into the Clarence up to Gonnehem after a course of .
Usage examples of "nave".
Eo cum venisset, circuitis omnibus hibernis, singulari militum studio in sumrma omnium rerum inopia circiter sescentas eius generis cuius supra demonstravimus naves et longas XXVIII invenit instructas neque multum abesse ab eo quin paucis diebus deduci possint.
As the side porches fronting the aisles are on the same level with the main porch, the bottom part of the front is bound together, and the divisions of nave and aisle, emphasised above by the prominent buttresses, are minimised below.
The first window from the west in the north aisle of the nave is plain.
His grave in the north aisle of the nave was opened when the present pavement was laid down in 1736, and a chalice and paten taken from it.
Looking southwards, some holland screens barred half of the nave, which showed ambery in the sunlight and was speckled at both ends by the dazzling blue and crimson of stained-glass windows.
The VicePresident, Head Manager, Vice-Manager, and some Cashiers of the Bank, now ranged themselves on either side of him, and formed an impressive group as they stood, gorgeously arrayed, at the top of the steps leading from the apse to the nave.
In all probability there was, according to the usual plan of Norman churches, a tower at the junction of the nave and transepts, and beyond this an apsidal choir.
The arcading of the south aisle of the nave has been terribly tampered with.
Some of the piers of the nave arcading have also been partially renewed.
Hugh of Eversden began to rebuild this ruined part of the church, and this accounts for the five bays of the nave arcading westward of the rood-screen being in fourteenth-century style.
It had been a day full of obligations and endless ministerial duties, including a meeting with Larry Garber regarding his drawings of the sacristy, revised based on their telephone exchange, and a general review of the floor plan for the nave, the baptistry, and the choir.
The interior of this church is generally considered one of the most beautiful interiors of Italy on account of its effective basilican plan with a crypt opening from the nave, its beautiful and rich detail, and its fine mosaics and decorations.
At the opposite end of the nave a door could be glimpsed behind the bema that contained the shrine to the four greater gods.
Llantrisant church has that primitive division between nave and chancel which only very foolish people decline to recognize as equivalent to the Oriental iconostasis and as the origin of the Western rood-screen.
Her uncovered face shone like alabaster, her lanceolate eyes had a life of their own under the enormous chandeliers of the central nave, and as she walked she was so erect, so haughty, so self-possessed, that she seemed no older than her son.