CHAPEL

Chapel

A chapel is a religious place of fellowship, prayer and worship – most often associated with interfaith worship services. It may be part of a larger structure or complex, such as a church, synagogue, college, hospital, palace, prison or funeral home, located on board a military or commercial ship, or it may be an entirely free-standing building, sometimes with its own grounds. Many military installations have chapels for the use of military personnel, normally under the leadership of a military chaplain. Until the Protestant Reformation, a chapel denoted a place of worship that was either at a secondary location that was not the main responsibility of the local ...

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chapel

Noun

  1. A place of worship, smaller than, or subordinate to a church.
  2. A place of worship in a civil institution such as an airport, prison etc.
  3. A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.
  4. A trade union branch in UK printing or journalism.
  5. A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.
  6. A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.

Verb

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

Adjective

  1. Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.
    The village butcher is chapel.


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