chapel

sustantivo

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.

adjetivo

1. 1

   Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.

   The village butcher is chapel.

verbo

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

   obsoletoTo deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.

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

Formas

plural

chapels

pasado

chapeled, chapelled

participio

chapeled, chapelled

gerundio

chapeling, chapelling

3.ª persona del singular

chapels