Basilican vs Basilica - What's the difference?
basilican | basilica |
Of, relating to, or resembling a basilica; basilical.
(architecture) A Christian church building having a nave with a semicircular apse, side aisles, a narthex and a clerestory.
A Roman Catholic church or cathedral with basilican status.
(obsolete) An apartment provided in the houses of persons of importance, where assemblies were held for dispensing justice; hence, any large hall used for this purpose.
As an adjective basilican
is of, relating to, or resembling a basilica; basilical.As a noun basilica is
a Christian church building having a nave with a semicircular apse, side aisles, a narthex and a clerestory.basilican
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Adjective
(en adjective)- There can be no doubt that the first churches in Constantinople were in the basilican form. — Milman.
