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Meaning of 'chapel' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Chapel [ n.]
- A subordinate place of worship
- a small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial
- a small building attached to a church
- a room or recess in a church, containing an altar.
- A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison.
- In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse.
- A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
- A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.
- An association of workmen in a printing office.
2 . Chapel [ v. t.]
- To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.
- To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) so to turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.

Meaning of 'chapel' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . chapel [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar
Example in sentence:
  • he was late for chapel

Nearby Words:

chab chabasite chablis chabouk chabuk chace chachalaca chacma chaconne chad

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