Holy Grail - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Middle English Holy Grayle.
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the Holy Grail (plural Holy Grails)
- (Arthurian legend) An artifact in Arthurian mythology, being the cup used by Christ at the Last Supper and in which some of his blood was caught during the crucifixion.
- (Internet, informal) A web page layout with fixed-width columns to the left and right, and a central area that fills the remaining space.
artifact in Christian mythology
- Breton: Graal, Graal Santel
- Bulgarian: Свещен Граал (Svešten Graal)
- Catalan: Sant Greal m
- Chinese:
- Cornish: Gral m
- Czech: Svatý grál m
- Dutch: Heilige Graal f
- Esperanto: Sankta gralo
- Finnish: Graalin malja
- French: Graal (fr) m, Saint-Graal m
- Middle French: Saint Graal m
- Galician: Graal m, Santo Graal m
- German: Heiliger Gral m
- Greek: Άγιο Δισκοπότηρο n (Ágio Diskopótiro), Άγιο Ποτήριο n (Ágio Potírio)
- Hungarian: Szent Grál (hu)
- Irish: An Soitheach Naofa m
- Italian: Santo Graal m
- Japanese: 聖杯 (ja) (せいはい, Seihai)
- Korean: 성배(聖杯) (Seongbae)
- Lao: ຈອກສັກສິດ (chǭk sak sit)
- Latin: Gradalis Sanctus m
- Manx: Grail Casherick
- Middle English: Seint Graal
- Norwegian: hellige gral
- Polish: Graal m, Święty Graal (pl) m
- Portuguese: Santo Graal m
- Russian: Свято́й Грааль (ru) m (Svjatój Graalʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Свети Грал, Свети Здела m
- Roman: Sveti Gral, Sveti Zdela m
- Spanish: Santo Grial m
- Swedish: den heliga gral c
- Tagalog: Banal na Kopita
- Thai: จอกศักดิ์สิทธิ์
- Turkish: Kutsal Kâse, Mukaddes Kâse
- Welsh: Greal sanctaidd m
Holy Grail (plural Holy Grails)
- (figuratively) Anything that is highly sought-after but attained only through difficult endeavor.
Nanotechnology is the holy grail of medicine.