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chapel

/ˈtʃæ.pəl/

noun

Meaning

  • 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.

  • A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.

  • 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.

verb

Meaning

  • 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.

  • To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.

adjective

Meaning

  • Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.

    "The village butcher is chapel."