chapel

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
15
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈt͡ʃæp.əl/
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/ˈt͡ʃæp.əl/ · [ˈt͡ʃæp.əɫ] · [ˈt͡ʃæp.ɫ̩] · /ˈt͡ʃɛp.əl/ · [ˈt͡ʃɛp.əɫ] · [ˈt͡ʃɛp.ɫ̩]

Definition of chapel

11 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (especially)A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
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noun

  1. (especially)A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
  2. 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.””
  3. (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.
  4. A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.
  5. (UK)A trade union branch in printing or journalism.
  6. A printing office.
  7. A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.

adj

  1. (Wales, not-comparable)Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.
    “The village butcher is chapel.”

verb

  1. (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.
  2. (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

  1. 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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