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chapel
[ chap-uhl ]
noun
- a private or subordinate place of prayer or worship; oratory.
- a separately dedicated part of a church, or a small independent churchlike edifice, devoted to special services.
- a room or building for worship in an institution, palace, etc.
- (in Great Britain) a place of worship for members of various dissenting Protestant churches, as Baptists or Methodists.
- a separate place of public worship dependent on the church of a parish.
- a religious service in a chapel:
Don't be late for chapel!
- a funeral home or the room in which funeral services are held.
- a choir or orchestra of a chapel, court, etc.
- a print shop or printing house.
- an association of employees in a print shop for dealing with their interests, problems, etc.
verb (used with object)
- Nautical. to maneuver (a sailing vessel taken aback) by the helm alone until the wind can be recovered on the original tack.
adjective
- (in England) belonging to any of various dissenting Protestant sects.
chapel
/ ˈtʃæpəl /
noun
- a place of Christian worship in a larger building, esp a place set apart, with a separate altar, in a church or cathedral
- a similar place of worship in or attached to a large house or institution, such as a college, hospital or prison
- a church subordinate to a parish church
- in Britain
- a Nonconformist place of worship
- Nonconformist religious practices or doctrine
- ( as adjective ) Compare church
he is chapel, but his wife is church
- (in Scotland) a Roman Catholic church
- the members of a trade union in a particular newspaper office, printing house, etc
- a printing office
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Example Sentences
Through a work-study program with the school, he is a Program Assistant at the UNC-Chapel Hill LGBT Center.
VATICAN CITY—In the 500 or so years since the Sistine Chapel was decorated, it has never looked so good.
Simon Fisher Turner told me he last saw Jarman lying dead in the hospital chapel.
A ‘Christian’ wedding chapel—a private business—in Idaho is suing for the right not to marry gay couples.
There, the city is apparently requiring the Hitching Post Lakeside Chapel to officiate gay weddings.
The private chapel, built out from the house on the side next Calne, had not been used for years and years.
In 1763 the chapel was enlarged, and at the same time a little more land was added to the graveyard.
Happening to cast his eyes that way, he saw a light where he had never seen one before—in the little unused chapel.
Dr. Ashton walked out of the chapel, and Val stood for a few moments where he was, looking up and down in the dim light.
The old Wesleyan chapel, in Martin Street, was fitted up for schools in 1865.
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