Meaning of chapel in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

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.

• 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.

adjective

• Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.

  Example: The village butcher is chapel.