Definition of Chapel

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Chapel

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.

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Chapel Quotations

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
Martin Luther

St. Paul's Chapel stands - without so much as a broken window. Little miracle.
Rudy Giuliani

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
Edvard Munch

Nature is our chapel.
Bjork

Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty.
Maria Monk

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

Everybody thought I was crazy. They thought I should take the money and run. But there was just something special about being a senior at Chapel Hill. I just couldn't leave.
Lorrie Fair

Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head.
Harold Brodkey

There are no conditions in which we subordinate the interests of the class as a whole to the interests of any sect, any chapel, any separate organization.
Ernest Mandel

If that's your definition of the Clinton faction, then I think that that seems to be in ascendancy. That might include a guy like John Edwards, who's just starting this new center in Chapel Hill to deal with issues of poverty and work.
John Podesta

Chapel Translations

chapel in Dutch is muziekkapel, kapel
chapel in French is chapelle
chapel in German is Kapelle
chapel in Italian is cappella
chapel in Spanish is capilla
chapel in Swedish is kapell

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