chapel /ˈt͡ʃæp.əl/noun 7verb 2adjective 1forms 5 noun7 •a place for prayer that is smaller than a church, or that stands inside a bigger one •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.One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” — 1918 •(UK) A place of worship of a denomination not in conformity with the Church of England, usually Protestant; for example, of Nonconformist or Dissenter congregations. •A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services. •(UK) A trade union branch in printing or journalism. •A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman. •A printing office. verb2 •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. •(no longer used) To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.give us the bones Of our dead kings, that we may chapel them! — 1613 adjective1 •(Wales) Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.The village butcher is chapel. formschapeled · chapelled · chapeling · chapelling · chapels
