chapel
noun
- 1
A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
- 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
A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.
- 4
A trade union branch in printing or journalism.
- 5
A printing office.
- 6
A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
verb
- 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
To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.
adjective
- 1
Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.
“The village butcher is chapel.”
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