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Monasteries vs Basilica - What's the difference?

monasteries | basilica |

As nouns the difference between monasteries and basilica

is that monasteries is while basilica is basilica (all senses).

monasteries

English

Noun

(head)

    • basilica

    English

    (wikipedia basilica)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.