Search

chapel🔊

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

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.”

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.

(Wales) Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.

(nautical) 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.

(obsolete) To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.

💬 Quotations
Thou purger of the Earth, draw thy feared sword / That does good turns to th’ world; give us the bones / Of our dead kings, that we may chapel them;
🎯
Track Your Progress
Sign in to study this word
🔑 Sign In
Join Word Warriors to build your vocabulary and track your progress.