Definition of "chapel" in İngilizce

noun

1. (especially Christianity) 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.

3. (UK) A place of worship of a denomination not in conformity with the Church of England, usually Protestant.

4. A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.

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) Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.

   • The village butcher is chapel.

verb

1. (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.

2. (obsolete, transitive) To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.