A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites. / (informal) A raised area around an altar in a church; the sanctuary.

The main altar in a church, situated on the main axis at the east of the chancel or choir.

A grouping of the Uralic language family with the Altaic languages, formerly considered a language family, now treated as an area of linguistic convergence, or possibly a sprachbund (like Altaic itself).

(astronomy) The brightest star in the constellation Aquila; Alpha (α) Aquilae. It is the twelfth brightest star in the sky, and forms one corner of the Summer Triangle.

A boy serving as an acolyte in certain forms of Christianity. / A young man adhering to traditional values.

(architecture, Christianity) A partition, often richly decorated, separating the nave from the chancel in a church; a rood screen.

Of or pertaining to a grouping of languages (formerly proposed to be a language family, now generally considered a sprachbund by linguists) that includes the Turkic languages (e.g. Turkish), the Mongolic (e.g. Mongolian) and Tungusic (e.g. Xibe) languages, and less often the Japanese and Korean languages.

a work of art suspended above and behind an altar in a church

plural of altar

(Roman Catholicism) A bell rung at significant times during the Mass.