chapel

noun

1. 1

   A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.

2. 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.”

3. 3

   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. 4

   A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.

5. 5

   A trade union branch in printing or journalism.

6. 6

   A printing office.

7. 7

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

adjective

1. 1

   Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.

   The village butcher is chapel.

verb

1. 1

   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. 2

   obsoleteTo deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.

   give us the bones Of our dead kings, that we may chapel them!

Forms

plural

chapels

past tense

chapeled, chapelled

past participle

chapeled, chapelled

present participle

chapeling, chapelling

third person singular

chapels