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chaplet

UK/ˈt͡ʃæplət/

chaplet noun: a garland or circlet for the head. Also the alternative form of chapelet.

Noun (1)

chaplet (plural chaplets)

  1. A garland or circlet for the head.
    • Her little chambers drip with flower-like red,
      Her girdles, and the chaplets of her head,
      Her armlets and her anklets; with her feet
      She tramples all that winepress of the dead.1862-1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Laus Veneris
  2. A headdress in the form of a wreath made of leaves, flowers or twigs woven into a ring.
  3. (archaic) A string (of beads), especially when making up five decades of the rosary.
    • Down the long street she passed, with her chaplet of beads and her missal,[…]1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, chapter I, in Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, part I, page 14
  4. A set of repetitive prayers, other than the Rosary, typically prayed with a string of beads.
    • The Chaplet of the Seven Sorrows of Mary consists of seven sets of Hail Marys.
    1. (specifically) The Chaplet of Divine Mercy, the most well-known chaplet in the Catholic Church.
      • People often pray the chaplet at 3:00 pm to commemorate Jesus' death.
  5. A series of spores or other objects arranged like beads on a string.
  6. A molding in the form of a string of beads; a bead molding.
  7. A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mould.
  8. A metal support for a cylindrical pipe.

Noun (2)

chaplet (plural chaplets)

  1. A small chapel or shrine.

Also used as

chaplet is also the alternative form of chapelet.

chaplet meaning in Telugu and Persian

chaplet in Telugu

a garland or circlet for the head
శేఖరము śēkharamu

chaplet in Persian

a garland or circlet for the head
بساک basâk

Forms of chaplet

pluralchaplets

Origin of chaplet

From Middle English chapelet, from Old French chapelet. Doublet of chapelet.

Words formed from chaplet

Questions about chaplet

What does chaplet mean?
Chaplet means a garland or circlet for the head.
What is chaplet in Telugu?
Chaplet in Telugu is శేఖరము (śēkharamu). See Chaplet meaning in Telugu.
What part of speech is chaplet?
Chaplet is a noun.
How do you pronounce chaplet?
Chaplet is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃæplət/ (UK).
What is the plural of chaplet?
The plural of chaplet is chaplets.

Words near chaplet in the dictionary

  1. chaplains
  2. chaplainship
  3. chaplainships
  4. CHAPLE syndrome
  5. chapless
  6. chaplet
  7. chapleted
  8. chaplets
  9. chapli
  10. chapli kabab
  11. chapli kababs

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