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      chapel
      noun
      (especially Christianity) 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.
      (UK) A place of worship of a denomination not in conformity with the Church of England, usually Protestant.
      A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.
      (UK) 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.
      A surname.
      verb
      (nautical, transitive) 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.
      (obsolete, transitive) To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.
      adjective
      (Wales) Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.
      Roots
      cappachap- · Latin · cloak, cape
      Synonyms for chapel
      sacellumchantrynsacrariummeetinghousen
      Words related to chapel
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