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, an honorific status granted by the pope to recognize its historical, architectural, or sacramental importance.
A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
A place of worship in another building or within a civil institution such as a larger church, airport, prison, monastery, school, etc.; often primarily for private prayer.
A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.
A printing office.
A trade union branch in printing or journalism.
Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.
To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) to turn or make a circuit so as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.