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chap·el 
[chap-uhl] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, -eled, -el·ing or (especially British) -elled, -el·ling, adjective
[chap-uhl] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, -eled, -el·ing or (especially British) -elled, -el·ling, adjective –noun
–verb (used with object)
–adjective
| 1. | a private or subordinate place of prayer or worship; oratory. |
| 2. | a separately dedicated part of a church, or a small independent churchlike edifice, devoted to special services. |
| 3. | a room or building for worship in an institution, palace, etc. |
| 4. | (in Great Britain) a place of worship for members of various dissenting Protestant churches, as Baptists or Methodists. |
| 5. | a separate place of public worship dependent on the church of a parish. |
| 6. | a religious service in a chapel: Don't be late for chapel! |
| 7. | a funeral home or the room in which funeral services are held. |
| 8. | a choir or orchestra of a chapel, court, etc. |
| 9. | a print shop or printing house. |
| 10. | an association of employees in a print shop for dealing with their interests, problems, etc. |
| 11. | Nautical. to maneuver (a sailing vessel taken aback) by the helm alone until the wind can be recovered on the original tack. |
| 12. | (in England) belonging to any of various dissenting Protestant sects. |
[Origin: 1175–1225; ME chapele < OF < LL cappella hooded cloak, equiv. to capp(a) (see cap1) + -ella dim. suffix; first applied to the sanctuary where the cloak of St. Martin (4th-century bishop of Tours) was kept as a relic]
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| chap·el
(chāp'əl) Pronunciation Key
n.
[Middle English chapele, from Old French, from Medieval Latin capella, chapel, canopy, cape (perhaps from a shrine containing the cape of St. Martin of Tours), diminutive of capa, from Late Latin cappa, hooded cloak.] |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
chapel
chapel
c.1225, from O.Fr. chapele, from M.L. cappella "chapel, sanctuary for relics," lit. "little cape," dim. of L.L. cappa "cape" (see cap); originally the sanctuary in France in which the cape of St. Martin of Tours was preserved; meaning extended in most European languages to "any sanctuary."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This
| chapel | |
noun | |
| 1. | a place of worship that has its own altar |
| 2. | a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar; "he was late for chapel" [syn: chapel service] |
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
U.S. Gazetteer - Cite This Source - Share This
Chapel Hill, NC (town, FIPS 11800) Location: 35.92761 N, 79.04063 W
Population (1990): 38719 (14850 housing units)
Area: 42.8 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 27514, 27516
Chapel Hill, TN (town, FIPS 12880) Location: 35.62808 N, 86.69621 W
Population (1990): 833 (346 housing units)
Area: 3.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 37034
New Chapel Hill, TX (city, FIPS 50876) Location: 32.30340 N, 95.16900 W
Population (1990): 439 (191 housing units)
Area: 6.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Morris Chapel, TN Zip code(s): 38361
Sharps Chapel, TN Zip code(s): 37866
Wesley Chapel, FL Zip code(s): 33543
Fox Chapel, PA (borough, FIPS 27120) Location: 40.52543 N, 79.88963 W
Population (1990): 5319 (1887 housing units)
Area: 20.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Mays Chapel, MD (CDP, FIPS 51587) Location: 39.43297 N, 76.64967 W
Population (1990): 10132 (4238 housing units)
Area: 9.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Chapel
Chap"el\, n. [OF. chapele, F. chapelle, fr. LL. capella, orig., a short cloak, hood, or cowl; later, a reliquary, sacred vessel, chapel; dim. of cappa, capa, cloak, cape, cope; also, a covering for the head. The chapel where St. Martin's cloak was preserved as a precious relic, itself came to be called capella, whence the name was applied to similar paces of worship, and the guardian of this cloak was called capellanus, or chaplain. See Cap, and cf. Chaplain., Chaplet.]1. A subordinate place of worship; as, (a) a small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial; (b) a small building attached to a church; (c) a room or recess in a church, containing an altar. Note: In Catholic churches, and also in cathedrals and abbey churches, chapels are usually annexed in the recesses on the sides of the aisles. --Gwilt. 2. A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison. 3. In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse. 4. A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman. 5. (Print.) (a) A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey. (b) An association of workmen in a printing office. Chapel of ease. (a) A chapel or dependent church built for the ease or a accommodation of an increasing parish, or for parishioners who live at a distance from the principal church. (b) A privy. (Law) Chapel master, a director of music in a chapel; the director of a court or orchestra. To build a chapel (Naut.), to chapel a ship. See Chapel, v. t., 2. To hold a chapel, to have a meeting of the men employed in a printing office, for the purpose of considering questions affecting their interests.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Chapel
Chap"el\, v. t. 1. To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. 2. (Naut.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Chapel
a holy place or sanctuary, occurs only in Amos 7:13, where one of the idol priests calls Bethel "the king's chapel."
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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