chapel

UK /ˈt͡ʃæp.əl/ US /ˈt͡ʃæp.əl/
noun 5verb 2adj 1name 1

Definitions

noun

1

A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.

2

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.

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.”

3

A place of worship of a denomination not in conformity with the Church of England, usually Protestant; for example, of Nonconformist or Dissenter congregations.

4

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

5

A trade union branch in printing or journalism.

adj

1

Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.

The village butcher is chapel.

verb

1

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.

2

To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.

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

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