ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Chapel

/ˈt͡ʃæp.əl/ · noun

Meaning

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

(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.
(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.
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.

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.”

The village butcher is chapel.

give us the bones Of our dead kings, that we may chapel them!

Choose a synonym only when it preserves the intended meaning, tone, and grammar of the full sentence.

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

Common synonyms include mortuary chapel, chapel service.

The opposite depends on the specific sense.

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.”

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