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chapel

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1. chapel - Noun

2. chapel - Adjective

3. chapel - Verb

4. Chapel - Proper noun

Meaning

A subordinate place of worship

a small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial

a small building attached to a church

a room or recess in a church, containing an altar.

A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison.

In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse.

A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.

A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.

An association of workmen in a printing office.

To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel. Martin Luther

No sooner is a temple built to God, but the Devil builds a chapel hard by. George Herbert

John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university. Russell Banks

Even in the tiniest little chapel there are some prayers said once a year. Czech Proverb

Where god builds a church, the devil will build a chapel. English Proverb

There is no chapel so small but has its saint. French Proverb

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