Definition of chapel
- n. - A subordinate place of worship
- n. - a small church, often a private foundation, as for a
memorial
- n. - a small building attached to a church
- n. - a room or recess in a church, containing an altar.
- n. - A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the
chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison.
- n. - In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the
Established Church; a meetinghouse.
- n. - A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court
of a prince or nobleman.
- n. - A printing office, said to be so called because printing
was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.
- n. - An association of workmen in a printing office.
- v. t. - To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.
- v. t. - To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) so to
turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the
same tack on which she had been sailing.