Notre Dame

American  

[noh-truh daym, dahm, noh-ter] / ˌnoʊ trə ˈdeɪm, ˈdɑm, ˌnoʊ tər /

noun

1. Also called Notre Dame de Paris. a famous early gothic cathedral in Paris (started 1163).

2. the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus.

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Notre Dame British  

/ 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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Etymology

Origin of Notre Dame

< French: our lady

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Example Sentences

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Notre Dame

And at the French capital's Notre Dame Cathedral, an AI system has been trained to transcribe 14,600 Latin pages from the church's medieval archives -- a task not dissimilar to code-breaking.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Now at the University of Notre Dame, Alford remembered her as “a star at Pepperdine” and said he hoped the public would “get to know her before they prejudge her.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

But in college, first at Arizona State then as a graduate student at Notre Dame, he underachieved.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

The game went back and forth until Skinner’s game-clinching, 54-yard pick-six with 1:18 left gave Notre Dame a 28-14 lead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Northwestern is playing Notre Dame, it starts at one, and by one-thirty I can’t get the game.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

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