Definitions for Chapel

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Chapel chap·el

Spelling: [chap-uh l]

IPA: /ˈtʃæp əl/

Chapel is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 118 anagrams from letters in Chapel (acehlp).

Definitions for Chapel

noun

1. a private or subordinate place of prayer or worship; oratory.
2. a separately dedicated part of a church, or a small independent churchlike edifice, devoted to special services.
3. a room or building for worship in an institution, palace, etc.
4. (in Great Britain) a place of worship for members of various dissenting Protestant churches, as Baptists or Methodists.
5. a separate place of public worship dependent on the church of a parish.
6. a religious service in a chapel:
7. a funeral home or the room in which funeral services are held.
8. a choir or orchestra of a chapel, court, etc.
9. a print shop or printing house.
10. an association of employees in a print shop for dealing with their interests, problems, etc.

adjective

1. (in England) belonging to any of various dissenting Protestant sects.

verb (used with object)

1. Nautical. to maneuver (a sailing vessel taken aback) by the helm alone until the wind can be recovered on the original tack.

Origin of Chapel

1175-1225; Middle English chapele Old French Late Latin cappella hooded cloak, equivalent to capp(a) (see cap¹) + -ella diminutive suffix; first applied to

Examples for Chapel

In a small room off the chapel, they left offerings of gratitude for filled promises of recovery.

The chapel was thronged, the majority of members being women.

I avoided the house of Mr Clayton, and absented myself from his chapel.

And the private “chapel” reportedly gives its newlyweds a conservative Christian CD with hetero-reinforcing marriage sermons.

My heart fluttered as I rose to comply with the demand, and the chapel was hushed.

To the major it was thenceforth chamber and chapel and monument.

So says the inscription on a large slab of black marble in the floor of the chapel.

The next evening, Romero was saying mass in the chapel at the hospice where he lived in a tiny room near the infirm and the dying.

Soon, believers seeking cures began flocking to the chapel and praying to its guardian angel, St. Roch.

Molly Worthen is an assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at chapel Hill.