chapel
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- 13
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Definition of chapel
11 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- (especially)A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
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noun
- (especially)A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
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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.
“One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.””
- (UK)A place of worship of a denomination not in conformity with the Church of England, usually Protestant; for example, of Nonconformist or Dissenter congregations.
- A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.
- (UK)A trade union branch in printing or journalism.
- A printing office.
- A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
adj
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(Wales, not-comparable)Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.
“The village butcher is chapel.”
verb
- (transitive)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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(obsolete, transitive)To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.
“give us the bones Of our dead kings, that we may chapel them!”
name
- A surname.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English chapele, chapel, from Old French chapele, from Late Latin cappella (“little cloak; chapel”), diminutive of cappa (“cloak, cape”). Doublet of capelle. (printing office): Said to be because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.
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