Word
Basilica
How many syllables?
4 Syllables
How it's divided?
ba-sil-i-ca
Definition
- n. - Originally, the place of a king; but afterward, an
apartment provided in the houses of persons of importance, where
assemblies were held for dispensing justice; and hence, any large hall
used for this purpose.
- n. - A building used by the Romans as a place of public
meeting, with court rooms, etc., attached.
- n. - A church building of the earlier centuries of
Christianity, the plan of which was taken from the basilica of the
Romans. The name is still applied to some churches by way of honorary
distinction.
- n. - A digest of the laws of Justinian, translated from the
original Latin into Greek, by order of Basil I., in the ninth century.
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