chapel
IPA: tʃˈæpʌɫ
noun
- (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.
- 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.
- A surname.
verb
- (nautical, transitive) 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.
- (obsolete, transitive) To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.
adjective
- (Wales) Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.
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Examples of "chapel" in Sentences
- He consecrated the chapel.
- The chapel was built for the nunnery.
- The room in the centre is the Chapel.
- She was buried in the chapel of the convent.
- His entrails are buried in the castle chapel.
- He is buried in Chapel of the Pines Crematory.
- A stucco cornice lines the sides of the chapel.
- He was buried in Chapel of the Pines Crematory.
- His interment was in Chapel of the Pines Crematory.
- Jesuits 'brick chapel is rebuilt in St. Mary's City
- In the Flemish style, they adorn the sides of the chapel.
- In front of the chapel is an atrial cross of carved stone.
- Saint John the Baptist, which we know as the chapel of Merton College.
- On the other side of the chapel is an interesting memorial for any student of
- In front of the chapel is an atrial cross depicting the crucifixion of Christ.
- My favorite part of my favorite job (camp counselor) was singing in chapel with my cabin of little girls, always a blast.
- "To me ... the chapel is a physical representation of Maryland's experiment with religious freedom," said Timothy Riordan, chief archaeologist at Historic St. Mary's City.
- The term chapel, says Joyce, in English as We Speak It in Ireland, has so ingrained itself in my mind that to this hour the word instinctively springs to my lips when I am about to mention a Catholic place of worship; and I always feel some sort of hesitation or reluctance in substituting the word church.