chapel

chapel has 13 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• 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.
• n.. a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar; "he was late for chapel"