Notre Dame

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

noun

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

2. the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus.

Notre Dame

/ nɔtrə dam, ˈnɒtrə, ˈnəʊtrə ˈdɑːm /

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of Notre Dame¹

< French: our lady

Example Sentences

She relocated again—and after many years, I was able to find her thanks to the Notre Dame sisters teaching in our parish school.

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What’s Next: Mike Chapple, an IT professor at the University of Notre Dame, said the outage is a reminder of the world’s reliance on major cloud providers like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.

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Dark clouds descending over Touchdown Jesus, and a heavy downpour soaking every soul in Notre Dame Stadium, as if Mother Nature herself was lashing out at the prospect of one of college football’s defining rivalries dying in vain.

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But if this was indeed the end, 99 years since USC and Notre Dame first met on a football field, it would be a particularly crushing finale for the Trojans, who fell 34-24 and now find their hopes of a College Football Playoff bid hanging by a thread.

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Sprinting right on an end-around, Lemon took the handoff from Maiava and immediately found himself trapped by the Notre Dame defense.

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