CHAPEL

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I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar

Example:

he was late for chapel

Synonyms:

chapel; chapel service

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("chapel" is a kind of...):

divine service; religious service; service (the act of public worship following prescribed rules)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A place of worship that has its own altar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("chapel" is a kind of...):

house of God; house of prayer; house of worship; place of worship (any building where congregations gather for prayer)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chapel"):

chantry (a chapel endowed for singing Masses for the soul of the donor)

lady chapel (a small chapel in a church; dedicated to the Virgin Mary)

side chapel (a small chapel off the side aisle of a church)

Instance hyponyms:

Sistine Chapel (the private chapel of the popes in Rome; it was built by and named after Sixtus IV in 1473)

Credits

Context examples:

“He was the only friend I made during the two years I was at college. I was never a very sociable fellow, Watson, always rather fond of moping in my rooms and working out my own little methods of thought, so that I never mixed much with the men of my year. Bar fencing and boxing I had few athletic tastes, and then my line of study was quite distinct from that of the other fellows, so that we had no points of contact at all. Trevor was the only man I knew, and that only through the accident of his bull terrier freezing on to my ankle one morning as I went down to chapel.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Again he went into the grounds of the deserted house, and we found him in the same place, pressed against the old chapel door.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Amy came out so strong on this occasion that I think the good thoughts in the little chapel really began to bear fruit.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It is a handsome chapel, and was formerly in constant use both morning and evening.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

And I have seen the aged Giotto, and he in turn was pupil to Cimabue, before whom there was no art in Italy, for the Greeks were brought to paint the chapel of the Gondi at Florence.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Its long, damp passages, its narrow cells and ruined chapel, were to be within her daily reach, and she could not entirely subdue the hope of some traditional legends, some awful memorials of an injured and ill-fated nun.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Spenlow conducted me through a paved courtyard formed of grave brick houses, which I inferred, from the Doctors' names upon the doors, to be the official abiding-places of the learned advocates of whom Steerforth had told me; and into a large dull room, not unlike a chapel to my thinking, on the left hand.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

With the tools which we had brought with us we opened them, one by one, and treated them as we had treated those others in the old chapel.