CHAPLAIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chaplain mean? 

• CHAPLAIN (noun)
  The noun CHAPLAIN has 1 sense:

1. a clergyman ministering to some institution

  Familiarity information: CHAPLAIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHAPLAIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A clergyman ministering to some institution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

clergyman; man of the cloth; reverend (a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church)

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

prison chaplain (a chaplain in a prison)

hospital chaplain (a chaplain in a hospital)

Holy Joe; military chaplain; padre; sky pilot (a chaplain in one of the military services)

Derivation:

chaplainship (the position of chaplain)

 Context examples 

She would swear the same, in a manner of speaking, before chaplain.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

There were lockers all round, and Wilson, the sham chaplain, knocked one of them in, and pulled out a dozen of brown sherry.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have not heard a man speak better since old Dom Bertrand died, who was at one time chaplain to the White Company.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Prayers were always read in it by the domestic chaplain, within the memory of many; but the late Mr. Rushworth left it off.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

"I think it was so splendid in Father to go as chaplain when he was too old to be drafted, and not strong enough for a soldier," said Meg warmly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She has come and told me that the chaplain of the English mission church has been sent for.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Whether those holy lords I spoke of were always promoted to that rank upon account of their knowledge in religious matters, and the sanctity of their lives; had never been compliers with the times, while they were common priests; or slavish prostitute chaplains to some nobleman, whose opinions they continued servilely to follow, after they were admitted into that assembly?

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

These with Alleyne and Ford, four French squires, and the castle chaplain, made the company who sat together that night and made good cheer in the Castle of Villefranche.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Why, he’s the chaplain of this ship—the chaplain, no less!

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There is something in a chapel and chaplain so much in character with a great house, with one's ideas of what such a household should be!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)