CHAPEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chapel mean? 

• CHAPEL (noun)
  The noun CHAPEL has 2 senses:

1. a place of worship that has its own altar

2. a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar

  Familiarity information: CHAPEL used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHAPEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A place of worship that has its own altar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("chapel" is a kind of...):

house of God; house of prayer; house of worship; place of worship (any building where congregations gather for prayer)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chapel"):

chantry (a chapel endowed for singing Masses for the soul of the donor)

lady chapel (a small chapel in a church; dedicated to the Virgin Mary)

side chapel (a small chapel off the side aisle of a church)

Instance hyponyms:

Sistine Chapel (the private chapel of the popes in Rome; it was built by and named after Sixtus IV in 1473)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

chapel; chapel service

Context example:

he was late for chapel

Hypernyms ("chapel" is a kind of...):

divine service; religious service; service (the act of public worship following prescribed rules)

 Context examples 

She had a little chapel, and in it found solacement for much trouble.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A member of the clergy in charge of a chapel or who works with the military or with an institution, such as a hospital.

(Chaplain, NCI Dictionary)

Never once did the dogs exhibit any symptom of uneasiness, and even when we returned to the chapel they frisked about as though they had been rabbit-hunting in a summer wood.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A courtesy title for an ecclesiastic attached to the chapel of a royal court, college, etc., or to a military unit.

(Chaplain, NCI Thesaurus)

He came, not to stop, but to join them; he was asked to go with them to the Garrison chapel, which was exactly what he had intended, and they all walked thither together.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

What! Not when Dorothy has given you to understand that there is a secret subterraneous communication between your apartment and the chapel of St. Anthony, scarcely two miles off?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

No need to speak of the glad hearts at Twynham Castle that night, nor of the rich offerings from out that Moorish cargo which found their way to the chapel of Father Christopher.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It weren't quite a chapel, but it seemed more solemn like; and then, says you, Ben Gunn was short-handed—no chapling, nor so much as a Bible and a flag, you says.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

When the boar perceived the tailor, it ran on him with foaming mouth and whetted tusks, and was about to throw him to the ground, but the hero fled and sprang into a chapel which was near and up to the window at once, and in one bound out again.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Now, it struck me, when we began to visit individuals in their cells, and to traverse the passages in which those cells were, and to have the manner of the going to chapel and so forth, explained to us, that there was a strong probability of the prisoners knowing a good deal about each other, and of their carrying on a pretty complete system of intercourse.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)