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Definition: Chapel |
ChapelNoun1. A place of worship that has its own altar. 2. A service conducted in a chapel; "he was late for chapel". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "chapel" was first used: sometime around 1200. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | Chapel a holy place or sanctuary, occurs only in Amos 7:13, where one of the idol priests calls Bethel "the king's chapel." Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a chapel, denotes dissension in social circles and unsettled business. To be in a chapel, denotes disappointment and change of business. For young people to dream of entering a chapel, implies false loves and enemies. Unlucky unions may entangle them. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Chapel is the chest containing relics, or the shrine thereof (Latin, capella; French, chape, a cope). The kings of France in war carried St. Martin's cope into the field, and kept it in a tent as a talisman. The place in which the cope was kept was called the chapelle, and the keeper thereof the chapelain. Chapel (A). Either a place subsidiary to the parish church, or a place of worship not connected with the State, as a Methodist Chapel, a Baptist Chapel, etc. Chapel in printers' parlance, meant his workshop. In the early days of printing, presses were set up in the chapels attached to abbeys, as those of Caxton in Westminster Abbey. (See Monk, Friar , etc.) Chapel. The "caucus" of journeymen printers assembled to decide any point of common interest. The chairman is called the "father of the chapel." To hold a chapel. To hold a printers' caucus. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A chapel is a church other than a parish church, often attached to a larger institution such as a college, a hospital, a palace, or a prison.One of the best known is that at King's College, Cambridge, which has a renowned choir.
Another famous chapel is Sistine Chapel, famous for Michelangelo's paintings on its ceilings. In English history, chapel was formerly the required designation of the churches of nonconformist faiths, which is to say, any Protestant churches outside of the established Church of England. It was a word particularly associated with religious practice in Wales.
This distinction had an impact in the Irish language in the Middle Ages, as Welsh people came with the Norman and Old English invaders to the island of Ireland. While the traditional Irish word for church was éaglais, a new word, ceipéal (from chapel) came into usage. Chapels are local church buildings used by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The name of the church is on the outside of the building, and there is usually a steeple without a cross. In the main room of the chapel used for the Sacrament meeting there are no paintings, flags, statues, carvings, or symbols. Although some chapels have pictures on stained glass. There are pictures or paintings in the hallways and in the classrooms and offices. There is an office for the Bishop or Branch President of the local "Ward" or "Branch" of the church. There are several classrooms used for Sunday School, Seminary classes, and youth groups on Sunday and throught the week.
Stake Centers are also used for weekly services.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Chapel."
Synonym: ChapelSynonym: chapel service (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Temple | Temple, cathedral, minster, church, kirk, chapel, meetinghouse, bethel, tabernacle, conventicle, basilica, fane, holy place, chantry, oratory. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Chapel |
| English words defined with "chapel": A cappella, Antechapel ♦ Cabinet organ, Capellane, Capellmeister, chantry, Chapel of ease, chapel service, Chapellany, Chapelry, consecrate, consecrated ♦ dedicated ♦ Fan vaulting, Free chapel ♦ Haikal ♦ in turn ♦ Kage, Kapelle ♦ Lady altar, lady chapel ♦ Parclose ♦ Retrochoir ♦ Sacellum, Sacrarium, side chapel, Sistine chapel, successively, Succursal ♦ To build a chapel ♦ Undercroft ♦ vicar. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "chapel": Adeste Fideles, AEGROTAT ♦ DIRECTOR, FUNERAL, Domestic Poultry ♦ FUNERAL ATTENDANT ♦ Goodluck's Close ♦ Hair stand on End ♦ Inchcape Rock, INFALAPSARIAN ♦ Kildare's Holy Fane ♦ Ludgate ♦ manager, funeral home, Monumental Figures ♦ Pigs, Polygamy ♦ Saxon Relics, St. Stephen's, Substitution of Service ♦ undertaker assistant ♦ Windmill Street. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "chapel": Chaplain. (references) |
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Screenplays | It was the Sistine Chapel he painted (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson) Sistine Chapel. (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson) Your Sunday chapel dress (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; writing credit: Edward Albee; Ernest Lehman) Look now, you are king in the chapel. But I will be queen in my own kitchen (How Green Was My Valley; writing credit: Richard Llewellyn; Philip Dunne) | |
Lyrics | You saw me crying in the chapel. (Crying in the Chapel; performing artist: Elvis Presley) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Arrival of Funeral Cortege at St. George's Chapel (1901) Going to the Chapel (1988) | |
Song Titles | Chapel Of Love (performing artist: The Dixie Cups) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A sharecropper picking cotton on a farm which is owned by a white woman. Chapel Hill (vicinity), NC. September 1939. Credit: USDA. |  | Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Memorial Chapel. Credit: Merv Coleman. |
 | VFW Memorial Chapel. Credit: Merv Coleman. |  | Holden Chapel. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 3, Vauclaire, France. : Bath house, chapel, mess hall, base hospital. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Memorial tablet in the Chapel at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, dedicated to the memory of officers and men of USS Trenton, USS Vandalia and USS Nipsic who lost their lives in the storm. Photographed circa the early 1900s or earlier. Credit: NAVY. |
 | St. Denis cathedral, Saint-Denis, France. Chapel. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Saint Andrew's Church, Wilmington, Delaware, revised design for w.i. bracket-lantern over steps at entrance to chapel from south yard / The Iron-Craftsmen ; Pope & Kruse, arch'ts. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Addison Avenue looking north at Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, showing Jubilee Hall, Fisk memorial chapel, and the Daniel Hand Model School. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Log chapel from Mamonov Ostrov village (Plesetsk Region) (18th century), reassembled at Malye Korely Architectural Preserve, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540. |
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| "Shary Chapel" by Jonathan Searfoss Commentary: "Shary Chapel is the final resting place for developer/pioneer John H. Shary in south Texas." | "Tassie Chapel" by Jason Felmingham Commentary: "A beautiful church in northern Tasmania." |
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 | Hallelujah; choir; church; chapel; religion; religious; praise; joy; lord; god; worship. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Martin Luther | Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel. |
| For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel...Thus is the Devil ever God's ape. | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | There was a massacre in the chapel. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | I will ask you now, all of you, to repeat after me the act of contrition, kneeling here in this humble chapel in the presence of God. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Jamaica | He complained that he was denied use of the prison chapel for a Rastafarian baptism. (references) |
Chile | Aravena is the first non-Catholic pastor assigned to the chapel in the Presidential Palace. (references) | |
Chile | On December 13, President Lagos designated Methodist Bishop Neftali Aravena as copastor for the chapel located in the presidential palace. (references) | |
Minorities | Bosnia and Herzegovina | On May 9, 11 tombstones in an Orthodox cemetery in Tuzla were desecrated and the cemetery chapel vandalized. (references) |
Croatia | Local observers believed the incident was related to the reopening of a nearby Orthodox chapel, reconstructed after 65 years. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to -- in opposition to the Supralapsarians, who hold that that luckless person's fall was decreed from the beginning. Infralapsarians are sometimes called Sublapsarians without material effect upon the importance and lucidity of their views about Adam. Two theologues once, as they wended their way To chapel, engaged in colloquial fray -- An earnest logomachy, bitter as gall, Concerning poor Adam and what made him fall. "'Twas Predestination," cried one -- "for the Lord Decreed he should fall of his own accord." "Not so -- 'twas Free will," the other maintained, "Which led him to choose what the Lord had ordained." So fierce and so fiery grew the debate That nothing but bloodshed their dudgeon could sate; So off flew their cassocks and caps to the ground And, moved by the spirit, their hands went round. Ere either had proved his theology right By winning, or even beginning, the fight, A gray old professor of Latin came by, A staff in his hand and a scowl in his eye, And learning the cause of their quarrel (for still As they clumsily sparred they disputed with skill Of foreordination freedom of will) Cried: "Sirrahs! this reasonless warfare compose: Atwixt ye's no difference worthy of blows. The sects ye belong to -- I'm ready to swear Ye wrongly interpret the names that they bear. You -- Infralapsarian son of a clown! -- Should only contend that Adam slipped down; While you -- you Supralapsarian pup! -- Should nothing aver but that Adam slipped up. It's all the same whether up or down You slip on a peel of banana brown. Even Adam analyzed not his blunder, But thought he had slipped on a peal of thunder! G.J. |
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David Berkowitz | Well, because I work and go to chapel and so forth, I can spend a good portion of my day outside of the cell. |
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| "Chapel" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 76.11% of the time. "Chapel" is used about 2,011 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 76.11% | 1,530 | 5,345 |
| Noun (proper) | 23.89% | 480 | 12,390 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,011 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "chapel" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Chapel | Last name | 1,000 | 14,672 |
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Expressions using "chapel": chapel choir ♦ chapel folk ♦ chapel Hill ♦ Chapel master ♦ chapel of ease ♦ chapel service ♦ congregational chapel ♦ Fox Chapel ♦ Free chapel ♦ funeral chapel ♦ lady chapel ♦ Mays Chapel ♦ Morris Chapel ♦ mortuary chapel ♦ New Chapel Hill ♦ Sharps Chapel ♦ side chapel ♦ Sistine chapel ♦ sixtine chapel ♦ the sistine chapel ♦ To build a chapel ♦ To hold a chapel ♦ Wesley Chapel. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "chapel": chapel-building, Chapel-en-le-frith, chapel-goer, chapel-going, Chapel-le-dale, chapel-like, chapel-meeting, chapel-of-ease, chapel-reared, chapel-rooted. | |
Ending with "chapel": ante-chapel, house-chapel, post-chapel, school-chapel, side-chapel. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "chapel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kishëz, faltore (pagoda, sanctuary, shrine, tabernacle, temple), dhomë faljesh. (various references) | |
Arabic | كنيسة صغيرة (oratory), معبد (paved, sanctuary, temple), جوقة ترتيل. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | страничен параклис в църква, сектантска църква (free church), неангликанска църква, параклис (tabernacle), допълнителен олтар в църква. (various references) | |
Chinese | 教堂 (church). (various references) | |
Czech | modlitebna (meeting house), kaple (chantry). (various references) | |
Danish | kapel (mortuary chapel). (various references) | |
Dutch | muziekkapel, kapel (butterfly). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kapelo. (various references) | |
Farsi | کلیسای کوچک . (various references) | |
Finnish | rukoushuone (meeting-house), kappeli. (various references) | |
French | chapelle. (various references) | |
German | kapelle (band, orchestra). (various references) | |
Greek | παρεκκλήσι (shrine), εξωκλήσι. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kápolna (zion), imaház (house of prayer, house of worship, meeting house, tabernacle). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kapel. (various references) | |
Irish | séipéal (church, house of worship, place of worship). (various references) | |
Italian | cappella (band, choir). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | チフス菌 (a channel, chaff, chalk, Chalmers, champion, champion flag, championship belt, chance, channel, channelling, chapter, charge, charity, Charleston, charm, charm point, charming, chart, chart file, charter, chat, chattering, child, child seat, chime, China, Chinese, Chinese collar, chunk, church, key-bounce, Mandarin collar, most attractive feature, opportunity, pennant, self-challenge, Tchaikovsky, Tibet, trying hard to do something, typhoid bacillus, zipper), 教会堂 (church), 会堂 (church, synagogue, tabernacle). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | チャペル , きょうかいどう (church), かいどう (aronia, assembly, church, highway, meeting, sea route, synagogue, tabernacle, unusually large or strong youth). (various references) | |
Korean | 채플. (various references) | |
Manx | cabbal. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | apelchay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | capela. (various references) | |
Romanian | capelã (choir), tipografie (print shop, printing house, printing office, typography), paraclis (oratory), bisericuţã (clique, coterie), atelier de tipografie. (various references) | |
Romansch | chaplutta. (various references) | |
Russian | часовня (chantry, oratory). (various references) | |
Scottish | caibeal (a chapel), seipeal (a chapel). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | oratorijum (oratorio, oratory), kapela. (various references) | |
Spanish | capilla (band, shrine). (various references) | |
Swedish | kapell (band, chantry, oratory, orchestra). (various references) | |
Turkish | tapınak (Fane, place of worship, sanctuary, shrine, tabernacle, temple), mabet (Fane, sanctuary, temple), küçük kilise, ibadet odası, basımevi çalışanları sendikası. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сектантський храм, співоча капела, церковне начиння (ornament), церковний хор (choir), капела (choir), каплиця (chantry), невелика церква, молитовня (oratory), боковий вівтар (sacrarium), богослужіння в каплиці. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tập thể thợ in. (various references) | |
Welsh | capel. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | itima. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | aediculam, aediculas. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | gebedhus. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | cappella. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Amos Chapter 7, Verse 13 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | EiV de baiqhl ouketi mh prosqhV tou profhteusai oti agiasma basilewV estin kai oikoV basileiaV estin |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et in Bethel non adicies ultra ut prophetes quia sanctificatio regis est et domus regni est |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And in Bethel thou shalt no more putte to, that thou prophecie, for it is the halewyng of the kyng, and is hous of the rewme. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it is the king's chapel, and it is the king's court. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | But prophesy not again any more at Beth-el: for it is the king's chapel, and it is the king's court. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But be a prophet no longer at Beth-el: for it is the holy place of the king, and the king's house. |
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| Language | Amos Chapter 7, Verse 13 |
| Albanian | por mos profetizo më në Bethel, sepse është shenjtërorja e mbretit dhe selia mbretërore". |
| Bulgarian | [] |
| Cebuano | Apan ayaw na panagna pag-usab sa Beth-el; kay kini mao ang balaan nga puloy-anan sa hari, ug kini mao ang balay nga harianon. |
| Croatian | Ali u Betelu da više nisi prorokovao, jer ovo je kraljevsko svetište, kraljevski hram." |
| Danish | Men i Betel må du ikke profetere længer, thi det er kongens Helligdom og Rigets Tempel." |
| Dutch | Maar te Beth-el zult gij voortaan niet meer profeteren; want dat is des konings heiligdom, en dat is het huis des koninkrijks. |
| Finnish | Mutta Beetelissä älä ennusta enää, sillä se on kuninkaan pyhäkkö ja valtakunnan temppeli." |
| French | Mais ne continue pas à prophétiser à Béthel, car c`est un sanctuaire du roi, et c`est une maison royale. |
| German | Und weissage nicht mehr zu Beth-El; denn es ist des Königs Heiligtum und des Königreichs Haus. |
| Haitian Creole | Men isit la, lavil Betèl, pito ou sispann bay mesaj ou yo si ou konn bout! Paske, se isit la wa a vin adore. Se yon tanp nasyonal pou tout peyi a. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Jangan lagi berkhotbah di Betel. Kota ini khusus untuk raja, dan tempat ibadah nasional." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tetapi jangan lagi engkau bernubuat di Bait-el, karena ia itulah tempat kesucian baginda dan kedudukan kerajaan. |
| Maori | Engari kati tau poropiti ki Peteere: ko to te kingi wahi tapu hoki ia, he whare hoki no te kingitanga. |
| Norwegian | Men i Betel skal du ikke mere holde på å profetere; for det er en kongelig helligdom og et rikstempel. |
| Portuguese | mas em Betel daqui por diante não profetizarás mais, porque é o santuário do rei, e é templo do reino. |
| Rumanian | Dar nu mai prooroci la Betel, cqci este un locaw sfknt al kmpqratului, wi este un templu al kmpqrqyiei!`` |
| Russian | Б Ч чЕЖЙМЕ ВПМШЫЕ ОЕ РТПТПЮЕУФЧХК, ЙВП ПО УЧСФЩОС ГБТС Й ДПН ГБТУЛЙК. |
| Spanish | y no profetices más en Betel, porque es el santuario del rey y la casa del reino. |
| Swedish | Men i Betel får du icke vidare profetera, ty det är en konungslig helgedom och ett rikets tempel." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "chapel": chapels. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "chapel": antechapel. (additional references) | |
Words containing "chapel": antechapels. (additional references) | |
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"Chapel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Capela, Capello, Caple, cappel, Cappell, cappello, chacell, chael, chamel, chape, Chapei, chapele, chapell, chaper, chapes, chapet, chaple, Chapot, chappen, Chappill, Chappo, charpe, chasel, chatel, Chazel, Chearell, chibol, chiel, Echoplex, hapel, Hapoel, Heppell, Kappel, Khaleeli. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "chapel" (pronounced kha"pul) |
| 4 | -a" p u l | Appel, apple, grapple. |
| 3 | -p u l | ample, archetypal, businesspeople, carpal, congresspeople, couple, craftspeople, cripple, crumple, decouple, dimple, disciple, episcopal, example, fipple, gospel, hopple, spokespeople, staple, steeple, subprincipal, supple, temple, laypeople, maple, metacarpal, multiple, municipal, newspeople, nipple, oedipal, opal, papal, people, pimple, pineapple, Popple, principal, principle, pupil, purple, quadruple, quintuple, ripple, rumple, salespeople, sample, scalpel, scruple, Semple, simple, tipple, topple, townspeople, trample, triple, uncouple. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pleach. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-l-p" | |
-1 letter: aleph, chape, cheap, chela, leach, peach, place. | |
-2 letters: ache, alec, cape, caph, chap, clap, each, epha, hale, heal, heap, help, lace, leap, lech, pace, pale, peal, pech, plea. | |
-3 letters: ace, ale, alp, ape, cap, cel, cep, hae, hap, hep, lac, lap, lea, pac, pah, pal, pea, pec, peh. | |
-4 letters: ae, ah, al, eh, el. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-l-p" | |
+1 letter: acaleph, chapels, chaplet, cheaply, epochal, planche. | |
+2 letters: acalephe, acalephs, cephalad, cephalic, cephalin, chaplets, kreplach, parhelic, planches, planchet, pleached, pleaches, potlache. | |
+3 letters: acalephae, acalephes, caliphate, catchpole, cephalins, champleve, chapleted, coliphage, encephala, epochally, halfpence, parfleche, petechial, planchets, pleaching, potlaches, preachily, prelaunch, showplace, spherical, spleuchan. | |
+4 letters: acephalous, acidophile, alphabetic, alphameric, antechapel, apothecial, archetypal, aspherical, birthplace, calipashes, caliphates, catchpoles, cellophane, cephalexin, cephalopod, champleves, chapfallen, cheapishly, chopfallen, coliphages, encephalon, grapholect, heptachlor, leprechaun, neophiliac, parfleches, pathetical, philatelic, phlegmatic, phylactery, planchette, polychaete, potlatched, potlatches, preethical, sepulchral, showplaces, spleuchans, telepathic. | |
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