chapel
A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
Noun 4 meanings
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.
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.
Adjective 1 meaning
Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.
“The village butcher is chapel.”
Verb 1 meaning
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.
Etymology
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.
CHAPEL at a glance
CHAPEL has 6 letters and scores 13 points in Scrabble (C 3 + H 4 + A 1 + P 3 + E 1 + L 1) and 15 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,665 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with chapel
All rhymes- GOSPEL9
- COMPEL12
- EXPEL14
- REPEL7
- PROPEL10
- DISPEL9
- LAPEL7
- SCALPEL11
- APPEL9
- IMPEL9
- ESTOPPEL12
- RAPPEL10
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