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.

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