chapel

/ˈt͡ʃæp.əl/

chapel means describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.

chapel is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃæp.əl/.

Etymology

From Middle English chapele, chapel, from Old French chapele, from Late Latin cappella (“little cloak; chapel”), diminutive of cappa (“cloak, cape”). Doublet of capelle. Displaced native Old English bēdhūs. (printing office): Said to be because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.

adj

Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.e.g.“The village butcher is chapel.”

name

A surname.

noun

A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
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.e.g.“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.”” — 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
A place of worship of a denomination not in conformity with the Church of England, usually Protestant; for example, of Nonconformist or Dissenter congregations.
A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.
A trade union branch in printing or journalism.
A printing office.
A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.

verb

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.
To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.e.g.“give us the bones Of our dead kings, that we may chapel them!” — 1613–1614, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, “The Two Noble Kinsmen”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please

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Words closest in meaning

By meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.

chapelgoer 81% match — One who regularly attends chapel. vs chapel →
chapelgoing 75% match — Regularly attending chapel. vs chapel →
chapelless 71% match — Without a chapel. vs chapel →
chapeler 71% match — A member of a religious sect in the 18th and 19th centuries that questioned the legitimacy of the priesthood. vs chapel →
chapelman 67% match — A clergyman; an official from a chapel. vs chapel →
chapellany 67% match — A chapel within the jurisdiction of a church; a subordinate ecclesiastical foundation. vs chapel →
chapelwarden 65% match — The warden of a chapel. vs chapel →
chapelwards 64% match — Towards a chapel. vs chapel →