English Explanatory Dictionary

chapel

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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.
  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.
  6. A printing office.
  7. A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
adj
  1. Describing a person who attends a nonconformist 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.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/ˈt͡ʃæp.əl/ [ˈt͡ʃæp.əɫ] [ˈt͡ʃæp.ɫ̩] en-us-chapel.ogg /ˈt͡ʃɛp.əl/ [ˈt͡ʃɛp.əɫ] [ˈt͡ʃɛp.ɫ̩]

Word forms

chapel chapels chapeling chapelling chapeled chapelled

Etymology

From Middle English chapele, chapel, from Old French chapele, from Late Latin cappella (“little cloak; chapel”), diminutive of cappa (“cloak, cape”). Doublet of capelle. (printing office): Said to be because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.

Synonyms

mortuary chapel

Derived words

absidal chapel antechapel apse chapel apsidal chapel Chapel Allerton Chapel Brampton chapel cart Chapel Chorlton chapel de fer Chapel-en-le-Frith chapeler chapelgoer chapel-goer chapelgoing Chapel Lawn Chapel-le-Dale chapelless chapelman chapelmaster Chapel Milton Chapel of Ease chapel of rest chapelry Chapeltown chapelward chapelwarden chapelwards closet-chapel father of chapel freechapel Heaton Chapel Holmes Chapel Lady chapel minichapel mortuary chapel mother of chapel St John's Chapel Thomas Chapel
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