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chapel

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noun/ˈt͡ʃæp.əl/[ˈt͡ʃæp.əɫ][ˈt͡ʃæp.ɫ̩]
  1. 1

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

  2. 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. 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.UK

  4. 4

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

  5. 5

    A trade union branch in printing or journalism.UK

  6. 6

    A printing office.

  7. 7

    A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.

adj/ˈt͡ʃæp.əl/[ˈt͡ʃæp.əɫ][ˈt͡ʃæp.ɫ̩]
  1. 1

    Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.Walesnot-comparable

    • The village butcher is chapel.
verb/ˈt͡ʃæp.əl/[ˈt͡ʃæp.əɫ][ˈt͡ʃæp.ɫ̩]
  1. 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.transitive

  2. 2

    To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.obsoletetransitive

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

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