chapel

/ˈtʃæ.pəl/

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.

  3. 3

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

  4. 4

    A trade union branch in printing or journalism.

  5. 5

    A printing office.

  6. 6

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

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

    To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.

adjective

  1. 1

    Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.

    The village butcher is chapel.

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