Chapel

['tʃæp(ə)l] or ['tʃæpl]

Definition

(noun.) a place of worship that has its own altar.

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Definition

(n.) A subordinate place of worship

(n.) a small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial

(n.) a small building attached to a church

(n.) a room or recess in a church, containing an altar.

(n.) A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison.

(n.) In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse.

(n.) A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.

(n.) A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.

(n.) An association of workmen in a printing office.

(v. t.) To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.

(v. t.) 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.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Church, temple, meeting-house, place of worship.

Typist: Nelly

Definition

n. a place of worship inferior or subordinate to a regular church or attached to a palace garrison prison school college &c.: an oratory in a mausoleum &c. or a cell of a church containing its own altar: a dissenters' place of worship as of Nonconformists in England Roman Catholics or Episcopalians in Scotland &c.: a chapel service—hence 'to keep one's chapels'—to make the requisite number of attendances at such: an association of workmen in a printing-office.—n. Chap′elry the jurisdiction of a chapel.—Chapel cart (see Cart).—Chapel of ease a chapel for worshippers far from the parish church; Chapel Royal the oratory of a royal palace; Lady chapel such a chapel dedicated to the Virgin; Proprietary chapel one that is the property of a private person or persons.

Typist: Owen

Unserious Contents or Definition

To dream of a chapel, denotes dissension in social circles and unsettled business. To be in a chapel, denotes disappointment and change of business. For young people to dream of entering a chapel, implies false loves and enemies. Unlucky unions may entangle them.

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