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/ˈtʃɑːnsəl/ · noun
The space around the altar in a church or cathedral, often enclosed, for use by the clergy and the choir. In medieval cathedrals the chancel was usually enclosed or blocked off from the nave by an altar screen..
Holonyms: church, cathedral
Near-synonyms: presbytery, sanctuary, apse (all broadly synonymous)
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Hester Earle and Violet Wayne were moving about the aisle with bundles of wheat-ears and streamers of ivy, for the harvest thanksgiving was shortly to be celebrated, while the vicar stood waiting for their directions on the chancel steps with a great handful of crimson gladioli.
Use chancel when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Chancel means The space around the altar in a church or cathedral, often enclosed, for use by the clergy and the choir. In medieval cathedrals the chancel was usually enclosed or blocked off from the nave by an altar screen..
Common synonyms include presbytery, sanctuary, apse[Appendix:Glossary, bema.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Holonyms: church, cathedral
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