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Entry 7 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Chapel

/chăp'-əl/ · Chap·el · IPA /ˈt͡ʃæp.əl/
01 n. A subordinate place of worship
  1. 1.
    A subordinate place of worship
  2. 2.
    A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison.
  3. 3.
    In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse.
  4. 4.
    A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
  5. 5.
    A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.(Print.)
Phrases & compounds
Chapel of ease — A chapel or dependent church built for the ease or a accommodation of an increasing parish, or for parishioners who live at a distance from the principal church.
Chapel master — a director of music in a chapel; the director of a court or orchestra.
To build a chapel — to chapel a ship. See Chapel, v. t., 2.
To hold a chapel — to have a meeting of the men employed in a printing office, for the purpose of considering questions affecting their interests.
02 v. t. To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.
  1. 1.
    To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.[Obs.]
  2. 2.
    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.(Naut.)