Chapel

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A place of worship that is smaller than and subordinate to a church.
  • noun. A place of worship in an institution, such as a prison, college, or hospital.
  • noun. A recess or room in a church set apart for special or small services.
  • noun. A place of worship for those not belonging to an established church.
  • noun. The services held at a chapel.
  • noun. A choir or orchestra connected with a place of worship at a royal court.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A funeral home.
  • noun. A room in a funeral home used for conducting funeral services.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A subordinate place of worship forming an addition to or a part of a large church or a cathedral, but separately dedicated, and devoted to special services.
  • noun. A separate building subsidiary to a parish church: as, a parochial chapel; a free chapel.
  • noun. A small independent church-edifice devoted to special services.
  • noun. A place of worship connected with a royal palace, a private house, or a corporation, as a university or college.
  • noun. In Scotland and Ireland, any Roman Catholic church or place of worship.
  • noun. An Anglican church, usually small, anywhere on the continent of Europe.
  • noun. A place of worship used by non-conformists in England; a meeting-house.
  • noun. In printing: A printing-house; a printers’ workshop: said to be so designated because printing was first carried on in England, by Caxton, in a chapel attached to Westminster Abbey.
  • noun. The collective body of journeymen printers in a printing-house.
  • noun. A choir of singers or an orchestra attached to a nobleman's or ecclesiastic's establishment or a prince's court.
  • To deposit or bury in a chapel; enshrine.
  • Nautical, to turn (a ship) completely about in a light breeze of wind, when close-hauled, so that she will lie the same way as before.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.
  • transitive verb. To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) so to turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.
  • noun. A subordinate place of worship.
  • noun. a small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial.
  • noun. a small building attached to a church.
  • noun. a room or recess in a church, containing an altar.
  • noun. A place of worship not connected with a church.
  • noun. In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse.
  • noun. A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.
  • noun. An association of workmen in a printing office.
  • noun. A privy.
  • noun. a director of music in a chapel; the director of a court or orchestra.
  • noun. to chapel a ship. See Chapel, v. t., 2.
  • noun. to have a meeting of the men employed in a printing office, for the purpose of considering questions affecting their interests.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A place of worship, smaller than, or subordinate to a church.
  • noun. A place of worship in a civil institution such as an airport, prison etc.
  • noun. A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.
  • noun. A trade union branch in UK printing or journalism.
  • adjective. Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.
  • verb. 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.
  • verb. To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar
  • noun. a place of worship that has its own altar
  • Word Usage
    "“The term chapel, ” says Joyce, in English as We Speak It in Ireland, “has so ingrained itself in my mind that to this hour the word instinctively springs to my lips when I am about to mention a Catholic place of worship; and I always feel some sort of hesitation or reluctance in substituting the word church."
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