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chapel

UK/ˈt͡ʃæp.əl/

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New Zealand/ˈt͡ʃɛp.əl/

chapel noun: a place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.

chapel: a place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church
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Noun

chapel (plural chapels)

  1. (especially) A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
  2. 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.
    • One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
  3. (UK) A place of worship of a denomination not in conformity with the Church of England, usually Protestant; for example, of Nonconformist or Dissenter congregations.
  4. A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.
    Synonyms:
    mortuary chapel
  5. (UK) A trade union branch in printing or journalism.
  6. A printing office.
  7. A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.

Adjective

chapel (not comparable)

  1. (Wales) Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.
    • The village butcher is chapel.

Verb

chapel (third-person singular simple present chapels, present participle (US) chapeling or (UK) chapelling, simple past and past participle (US) chapeled or (UK) chapelled)

  1. (transitive) 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. (obsolete, transitive) To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.
    • give us the bones Of our dead kings, that we may chapel them!1613–1614, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, “The Two Noble Kinsmen”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please...

Proper noun capitalized: Chapel

Chapel (plural Chapels)

  1. A surname.

chapel meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

chapel in Hindi

place of worship
चैपल caipal, नमाज़गाह namāzgāh, मुसल्ला musallā

chapel in Tamil

கிறித்துவச் சிறுகோயில், திருமனை

chapel in Marathi

चॅपल

chapel in Urdu

place of worship
مصلی musallā, چیپل caipal, نمازگاہ namāzgāh
More languagesFewer languages
chapel in Bengali
চ্যাপেল cêpel, মুসল্লা muśolla
chapel in Telugu
చాపెల్
chapel in Malayalam
കപ്പേള kappēḷa
chapel in Kannada
ಕ್ರೈಸ್ತರ ಪೂಜಾಸ್ಥಳ, ಸಣ್ಣ ಚರ್ಚು, ಚರ್ಚಿನ ಭಾಗ, ಇಗರ್ಜಿ
chapel in Punjabi
ਚੈਪਲ
chapel in Gujarati
ચેપલ
chapel in Odia
ଚାପେଲ୍
chapel in Nepali
चापेल, च्यापल, च्यापेल
chapel in Pashto
مصله masala, مصلا mosalã
chapel in Tagalog
tuklong, kapilya
chapel in Arabic
مُصَلًّى muṣallan, كَنِيسَة kanīsa
chapel in Malay
kapel, musala
chapel in Indonesian
kapel, musala
chapel in Persian
نمازخانه namâzxâne, مصلی mosallâ, نمازگاه namâzgâh
chapel in Thai
โบสถ์น้อย, โบสถ์ bòot
chapel in Vietnamese
nhà nguyện

Examples of chapel in a sentence

  • The college has an apse that once held a small chapel.
  • The wedding party got in their cars and caravaned from the chapel to the reception hall.
  • She arrived at the chapel for her marriage with unstained honor.

All 40 example sentences with chapel

Synonyms of chapel

Forms of chapel

Noun
pluralchapels
Verb
third-person singular presentchapels
present participle USchapeling
present participle UKchapelling
past participle USchapeled
past USchapeled
past participle UKchapelled
past UKchapelled
Proper noun
pluralChapels

Plural of chapel: chapels

Origin of chapel

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.

Words formed from chapel

Phrases with chapel

Words that rhyme with chapel

Questions about chapel

What does chapel mean?
Chapel means a place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
What is chapel in Hindi?
Chapel in Hindi is चैपल (caipal), नमाज़गाह (namāzgāh), मुसल्ला (musallā). See Chapel meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is chapel?
Chapel can be a noun, an adjective, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce chapel?
Chapel is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃæp.əl/ (UK).
What is the plural of chapel?
The plural of chapel is chapels.

Words near chapel in the dictionary

  1. chapeaux-bras
  2. chaped
  3. Chapei
  4. Chapek
  5. Chapeks
  6. chapel
  7. Chapel Allerton
  8. Chapel and Hill Chorlton
  9. Chapel Arm
  10. Chapel Brampton
  11. chapel cart

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chapel (page history and authors); Chapel (page history and authors); chapel (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chapel (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); chapel (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); കപ്പേള (Malayalam) (page history and authors); chapel (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chapel (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); chapel (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); chapel (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); chapel (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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