chapel.
A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
Meaning & usage
A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
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.
A place of worship of a denomination not in conformity with the Church of England, usually Protestant; for example, of Nonconformist or Dissenter congregations.
A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.
A trade union branch in printing or journalism.
A printing office.
A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English chapele, chapel, from Old French chapele, from Late Latin cappella (“little cloak; chapel”), diminutive of cappa (“cloak, cape”). Doublet of capelle. Displaced native Old English bēdhūs. (printing office): Said to be because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.
Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.
The village butcher is chapel.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English chapele, chapel, from Old French chapele, from Late Latin cappella (“little cloak; chapel”), diminutive of cappa (“cloak, cape”). Doublet of capelle. Displaced native Old English bēdhūs. (printing office): Said to be because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.
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.
To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English chapele, chapel, from Old French chapele, from Late Latin cappella (“little cloak; chapel”), diminutive of cappa (“cloak, cape”). Doublet of capelle. Displaced native Old English bēdhūs. (printing office): Said to be because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.
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