Synonyms for chapel

Grammar : Noun

Spell : chap-uh l

Phonetic Transcription : ˈtʃæp əl

Définition of chapel

Origin : early 13c., from Old French chapele (12c., Modern French chapelle), from Medieval Latin cappella "chapel, sanctuary for relics," literally "little cape," diminutive of Late Latin cappa "cape" (see cap (n.)); by tradition, originally in reference to the sanctuary in France in which the miraculous cape of St. Martin of Tours, patron saint of France, was preserved; meaning extended in most European languages to "any sanctuary." (While serving Rome as a soldier deployed in Gaul, Martin cut his military coat in half to share it with a ragged beggar. That night, Martin dreamed Christ wearing the half-cloak; the half Martin kept was the relic.)

noun church room

Example sentences :

My heart fluttered as I rose to comply with the demand, and the chapel was hushed.
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various

The chapel was thronged, the majority of members being women.
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various

I avoided the house of Mr Clayton, and absented myself from his chapel.
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various

To the major it was thenceforth chamber and chapel and monument.
Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald

So says the inscription on a large slab of black marble in the floor of the chapel.
Extract from : « Yorkshire Painted And Described » by Gordon Home

In the afternoon, services were held in the chapel downstairs.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

This chapel was one of the most sunken and dark of the old Romanesque apse.
Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola

This gentleman was a clergyman, who had no regular parish, but who preached in a chapel of his own.
Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper

Then we shall go into the chapel, where the priest Henriques waits, also all the household.
Extract from : « Fair Margaret » by H. Rider Haggard

Muza made no reply, as he stalked slowly through the chapel.
Extract from : « Leila, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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