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kapelle

kapelle is the alternative form of capelle.

Meaning of capelle

Noun

capelle (plural capelles or capellen)

  1. (historical) The private orchestra or band of a prince or church.
    • And for rehearsals of those, the musicians of the capelle are required to appear on his demand.2002, Christoph Wolff, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 147

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Proper noun capitalized: Kapelle

Kapelle

  1. A village and municipality of Zeeland, Netherlands.

Forms of kapelle

pluralkapelles
pluralkapellen

Origin of kapelle

Borrowed from Dutch Kapelle.

Questions about kapelle

What does kapelle mean?
Kapelle means a village and municipality of Zeeland, Netherlands.
What is kapelle the alternative form of?
Kapelle is the alternative form of capelle.
What part of speech is kapelle?
Kapelle is a proper noun.

Words near kapelle in the dictionary

  1. kapeeks
  2. kapeika
  3. kapeikas
  4. Kapela
  5. kapellasite
  6. kapelle
  7. kapellen
  8. kapellmeister
  9. kapellmeisters
  10. Kapelushnik
  11. kapelye

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kapelle (page history and authors); Kapelle (page history and authors); capelle (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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