chapel

sostantivo

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.

aggettivo

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!

Forme

plurale

chapels

passato

chapeled, chapelled

participio passato

chapeled, chapelled

participio presente

chapeling, chapelling

3ª persona singolare

chapels