chaplain
IPA: tʃˈæpɫʌn
noun
- A member of a religious body who is (often, although not always, of the clergy) officially assigned to provide pastoral care at an institution, group, private chapel, etc.
- A person without religious affiliation who carries out similar duties in a secular context.
- A surname.
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Examples of "chaplain" in Sentences
- The chaplains locked the church.
- Graver became the wife of the royal chaplain.
- The current chaplain is the Reverend C. Clinch.
- The Chaplain Corps are not meant to proselytize.
- He was chaplain of the Society of the Cincinnati.
- The prisoners refuse the attention of a chaplain.
- He became the chaplain to the Nachtigall Battalion.
- He is also the chaplain for the sisters of the covent.
- He does this because of the vitality of the Chaplain in combat.
- The church is named after the chaplain of the New York fire department.