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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A small chapel or porch at the western end of a medieval English church.

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  1. n. architecture A narthex, particularly in the United Kingdom and the Church of England; a vestibule, a fully-enclosed yet porch-like structure, leading to the main body of an English ecclesiastical building.
  2. n. In certain Syriac Christian churches, the baptistry.

Etymologies

  1. Middle English galile, from Old North French galilee, from Medieval Latin galilaea, from Latin Galilaea, Galilee. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • fbharjo derived from root (galiyl) meaning circle or circuit Feb 13, 2007

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