chapel

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. (especially) A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
2. A place of worship in another building or within a civil institution such as a larger church, airport, prison, monastery, school, etc.; often primarily for private prayer.
3. (UK) A place of worship of a denomination not in conformity with the Church of England, usually Protestant.
4. A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.
5. (UK) A trade union branch in printing or journalism.
6. A printing office.
7. A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.

Adj

Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.

Verb

1. (transitive) To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) to turn or make a circuit so as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.

Conceptes

capella

Sinònims

church

⛪

oratory

chapel service

funeral home

divine service

office

🏢

assembly hall

place of worship

🛐

sanctuary

shrine

synagogue

🕍

tabernacle

temple

religious service

Protestant Church

parish

auditorium

bethel

cathedral

Traduccions

chapelle

capilla

Kapelle

cappella

kapel

capela

παρεκκλήσι

chiesetta

muziekkapel

capèla

şapel

chiesa

⛪

küçük kilise

παρεκκλήσιο

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈt͡ʃæp.əl/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: chapele

In summary

From Middle English chapele, chapel, from Old French chapele, from Late Latin cappella (“little cloak; chapel”), diminutive of cappa (“cloak, cape”). Doublet of capelle.
(printing office): Said to be because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.