Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(Roman Catholicism) Any of a group of saints depicted in art carrying heads in their hands..
According to William of Worcester, quite a large number of Cornish saints were cephalophores: besides S. Nectan and S. Willow, he tells us that “there were three brothers under the name of Genesius and each one carried his head.”
Use cephalophore when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cephalophore means (Roman Catholicism) Any of a group of saints depicted in art carrying heads in their hands..
Common synonyms include cephalopod.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
According to William of Worcester, quite a large number of Cornish saints were cephalophores: besides S. Nectan and S. Willow, he tells us that “there were three brothers under the name of Genesius and each one carried his head.”
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.