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chapel¹

  • /ˈt͡ʃæp.əl/ Australia, Canada, US
  • [ˈt͡ʃæp.əɫ] Australia, Canada, US
  • [ˈt͡ʃæp.ɫ̩] Australia, Canada, US
  • /ˈt͡ʃɛp.əl/ New Zealand
  • [ˈt͡ʃɛp.əɫ] New Zealand
  • [ˈt͡ʃɛp.ɫ̩] New Zealand

Rhymes with -æpəl

Where it comes from

From Middle English chapele, chapel, from Old French chapele, from Late Latin cappella (“little cloak; chapel”), diminutive of cappa (“cloak, cape”). Doublet of capelle. Displaced native Old English bēdhūs.

(printing office): Said to be because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.

noun chapels

  1. especially A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
  2. 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.”
  3. 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.
  4. A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.

    Similar: mortuary chapel

  5. UK A trade union branch in printing or journalism.
  6. A printing office.
  7. A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.

adjective

  1. Wales, not comparable Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel. The village butcher is chapel.

verb chapels · chapeling · chapelling · chapeled · chapelled

  1. 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.
  2. obsolete, transitive To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine. give us the bones Of our dead kings, that we may chapel them!

Chapel²

proper noun Chapels

  1. A surname.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: chapel service, church, cathedral, oratory, parish, congregation, religious, parochial, loyal, faithful, chamber, frith, vault, pastoralist, pastoral, heather

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noun place of worship

Españolcapilla
한국어예배당 yebaedang, 채플 chaepeul
日本語チャペル chaperu, 礼拝堂
中文禮拜堂 /礼拜堂 lǐbàitáng
हिन्दीचैपल caipal, नमाज़गाह namāzgāh, मुसल्ला musallā
Kiswahilichapeli, kikanisa
Portuguêscapela
Françaischapelle
DeutschKapelle
Italianocappella, chiesetta
Ελληνικάπαρεκκλήσι parekklísi, εξωκκλήσι exokklísi
Românăcapelă
Русскийчасо́вня časóvnja, капе́лла kapɛ́lla
Tiếng Việtnhà nguyện
العربيةمُصَلًّى muṣallan, كَنِيسَة kanīsa
עבריתקָפֶּלָה kapla

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@misc{chapel_2026,
  title = {chapel},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/chapel},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}