basilica vs chapel

basilica

noun
  • 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. 

chapel

noun
  • 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. 

adj
  • Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel. 

verb
  • 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. 

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