Holy Grail

See also: holy grail

English

From Middle English Holy Grayle.

(web page layout): So called because it was traditionally difficult to achieve with the available markup.

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:
Mandarin: 聖杯／圣杯 (zh) (shèngbēi)
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.

distant or difficult, sought-after goal