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chapel of ease

chapel of ease noun: a chapel built in a remote part of a parish to meet the needs of those who live far from the parish church.

chapel of ease: a chapel built in a remote part of a parish to meet the needs of those who live far from the parish...
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Noun

chapel of ease (plural chapels of ease)

  1. A chapel built in a remote part of a parish to meet the needs of those who live far from the parish church.
  2. (informal) A privy; a toilet.

Proper noun capitalized: Chapel of Ease

Chapel of Ease

  1. A small settlement in Abercarn community, Caerphilly borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST2295).

Forms of chapel of ease

pluralchapels of ease

Origin of chapel of ease

Originally a chapel built for a Lady Llanover, which was demolished in the 1960s, but the name survives for the area. There was also a Baptist chapel in the same area.

Questions about chapel of ease

What does chapel of ease mean?
Chapel of ease means a chapel built in a remote part of a parish to meet the needs of those who live far from the parish church.
What part of speech is chapel of ease?
Chapel of ease can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of chapel of ease?
The plural of chapel of ease is chapels of ease.

Words near chapel of ease in the dictionary

  1. chapel de fer
  2. Chapel Flat
  3. Chapel Hill
  4. Chapel Lawn
  5. Chapel Milton
  6. chapel of ease
  7. chapel of rest
  8. chapel royal
  9. Chapel-en-le-Frith
  10. chapel-goer
  11. chapel-goers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chapel of ease (page history and authors); Chapel of Ease (page history and authors). 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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