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.