Definition of "chapel"

chapel

/ˈtʃæ.pəl/

noun
plural chapels
1. (especially Christianity) 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.
  Quotations
  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.”
  1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
3. A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.
4. (UK) A trade union branch in printing or journalism.
5. A printing office.
6. A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
adjective
not comparable
1. (Wales) Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.
verb
third-person singular simple present chapels, present participle chapelling, simple past and past participle chapelled
1. (nautical, 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.
  Quotations
  give us the bones Of our dead kings, that we may chapel them!
  1613–1614, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, “The Two Noble Kinsmen.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)

Definition of "chapel"

chapel

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