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 large or important church building.
A large, impressive, lofty, and/or important building or place of some other kind.
The principal church of an archbishop's/bishop's archdiocese/diocese which contains an episcopal throne.
A large buttressed structure built by certain termites.
In certain right-wing conspiracy theories, the mainstream system or establishment of society, held to be liberal or leftist and to be working against the interests of the people or nation, which is both.
Relating to the throne or the see of a bishop.