Chapel
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈt͡ʃæp.əl/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Chapel is a noun meaning (especially Christianity) A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
Meaning
(especially Christianity) A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
More Meanings
- 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.
- 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.
- (UK) A place of worship of a denomination not in conformity with the Church of England, usually Protestant; for example, of Nonconformist or Dissenter congregations.
Example Sentences
The village butcher is chapel.
give us the bones Of our dead kings, that we may chapel them!
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.”
Word Forms
- chapels
- chapeling
- chapelling
- chapeled
- chapelled
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include church, cathedral, oratory, parish, congregation, religious.
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