Standard Lemma guide

chapel

adj · name · noun · verb · 13 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Australian, Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃæp.əl/
  • Australian, Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: [ˈt͡ʃæp.əɫ]
  • Australian, Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: [ˈt͡ʃæp.ɫ̩]
  • California: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • New-Zealand: /ˈt͡ʃɛp.əl/
  • New-Zealand: [ˈt͡ʃɛp.əɫ]
  • New-Zealand: [ˈt͡ʃɛp.ɫ̩]
  • rhymes with -æpəl
  • CMU ARPABET: CH AE1 P AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Wales, not-comparable

Examples

  • The village butcher is chapel.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: especially

Topics: Christianity

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A place of worship of a denomination not in conformity with the Church of England, usually Protestant; for example, of Nonconformist or Dissenter congregations.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: mortuary chapel

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

A trade union branch in printing or journalism.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

A printing office.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

verb

Meaning 10

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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Topics: nautical, transport

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

verb

Meaning 11

To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete, transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • he was late for chapel

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: chapel service

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: service, religious service, divine service

13

noun

Meaning 13

a place of worship that has its own altar

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: place of worship, house of prayer, house of God, house of worship

Narrower terms: chantry, lady chapel, side chapel, Sistine Chapel

History

Etymology

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

Across languages

Translations

129 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: kapel — place of worship
  • Albanian: vend falje — place of worship
  • Albanian: tempull — place of worship
  • Arabic: مُصَلًّى (muṣallan) — place of worship
  • Arabic: كَنِيسَة (kanīsa) — place of worship
  • Armenian: մատուռ (matuṙ) — place of worship
  • Old Armenian: մատուռն (matuṙn) — place of worship
  • Asturian: capiella — place of worship
  • Asturian: capiya — place of worship
  • Azerbaijani: kapella — place of worship
  • Azerbaijani: ibadətgah — place of worship
  • Azerbaijani: musalla — place of worship
  • Bashkir: ғибәҙәтхана (ğibəźətxana) — place of worship
  • Belarusian: каплі́ца (kaplíca) — place of worship
  • Bengali: চ্যাপেল (cêpel) — place of worship
  • Bengali: মুসল্লা (muśolla) — place of worship
  • Bulgarian: пара́клис (paráklis) — place of worship
  • Catalan: capella — place of worship
  • Chinese Cantonese: 禮拜堂 /礼拜堂 (lai5 baai3 tong4) — place of worship
  • Chinese Mandarin: 禮拜堂 /礼拜堂 (lǐbàitáng) — place of worship
  • Czech: kaple — place of worship
  • Danish: kapel — place of worship
  • Dutch: kapel — place of worship
  • Egyptian: kA:r-O18 (kꜣr) — place of worship
  • Esperanto: preĝejeto — place of worship
  • Esperanto: kapelo — place of worship
  • Estonian: kabel — place of worship
  • Etruscan: 𐌚𐌀𐌍𐌖 class inanimate (fanu) — place of worship
  • Etruscan: 𐌘𐌀𐌍𐌖 class inanimate (φanu) — place of worship
  • Etruscan: 𐌇𐌀𐌍𐌖 class inanimate (hanu) — place of worship
  • Finnish: kappeli — place of worship
  • Finnish: rukoushuone — place of worship
  • Finnish: tsasouna — place of worship
  • French: chapelle — place of worship
  • Friulian: capele — place of worship
  • Galician: capela — place of worship
  • Georgian: სამლოცველო (samlocvelo) — place of worship
  • Georgian: კაპელა (ḳaṗela) — place of worship
  • German: Kapelle — place of worship
  • Greek: παρεκκλήσι (parekklísi) — place of worship
  • Greek: εξωκκλήσι (exokklísi) — place of worship
  • Hebrew: קָפֶּלָה (kapla) — place of worship
  • Hindi: चैपल (caipal) — place of worship
  • Hindi: नमाज़गाह (namāzgāh) — place of worship
  • Hindi: मुसल्ला (musallā) — place of worship
  • Hungarian: kápolna — place of worship
  • Icelandic: kapella — place of worship
  • Indonesian: kapel — place of worship
  • Indonesian: musala — place of worship
  • Ingrian: cäsönä — place of worship
  • Irish: séipéal — place of worship
  • Irish: teach pobail — place of worship
  • Italian: cappella — place of worship
  • Italian: chiesetta — place of worship
  • Japanese: チャペル (chaperu) — place of worship
  • Japanese: 礼拝堂 — place of worship
  • Kapampangan: bisitas — place of worship
  • Kapampangan: kapilya — place of worship
  • Kapampangan: tuklung — place of worship
  • Kazakh: ғибадатхана (ğibadatxana) — place of worship
  • Konkani: कोपेल (kopel) — place of worship
  • Korean: 예배당 (yebaedang) — place of worship
  • Korean: 례배당 (ryebaedang) — place of worship
  • Korean: 채플 (chaepeul) — place of worship
  • Kyrgyz: ибадаткана (ibadatkana) — place of worship
  • Latin: sacellum — place of worship
  • Latin: aedicula — place of worship
  • Latin: sacrārium — place of worship
  • Latvian: kapela — place of worship
  • Lithuanian: koplyčia — place of worship
  • Macedonian: параклис (paraklis) — place of worship
  • Macedonian: капела (kapela) — place of worship
  • Malay: kapel — place of worship
  • Malay: musala — place of worship
  • Maltese: kappella — place of worship
  • Middle English: chapele — place of worship
  • Mongolian: жижиг сүм (žižig süm) — place of worship
  • Norman: chapelle — place of worship
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kapell — place of worship
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kapell — place of worship
  • Occitan: capèla — place of worship
  • Old English: bēdhūs — place of worship
  • Pashto: مصله (masala) — place of worship
  • Pashto: مصلا (mosalã) — place of worship
  • Persian: نمازخانه (namâzxâne) — place of worship
  • Persian: مصلی (mosallâ) — place of worship
  • Persian: نمازگاه (namâzgâh) — place of worship
  • Polish: kaplica — place of worship
  • Portuguese: capela — place of worship
  • Romanian: capelă — place of worship
  • Russian: часо́вня (časóvnja) — place of worship
  • Russian: капе́лла (kapɛ́lla) — place of worship
  • Russian: капли́ца (kaplíca) — place of worship
  • Sardinian: capedda — place of worship
  • Scottish Gaelic: caibeal — place of worship
  • Serbo-Croatian: капе́ла — place of worship
  • Serbo-Croatian: kapéla — place of worship
  • Slovak: kaplnka — place of worship
  • Slovene: kapela — place of worship
  • Spanish: capilla — place of worship
  • Swahili: chapeli — place of worship
  • Swahili: kikanisa — place of worship
  • Swedish: kapell — place of worship
  • Tagalog: tuklong — place of worship
  • Tagalog: kapilya — place of worship
  • Tajik: намозхона (namozxona) — place of worship
  • Tajik: мусалло (musallo) — place of worship
  • Tajik: намазгоҳ (namazgoh) — place of worship
  • Tatar: гыйбадәтханә (ğıybadätxanä) — place of worship
  • Thai: โบสถ์น้อย — place of worship
  • Thai: โบสถ์ (bòot) — place of worship
  • Turkish: küçük kilise — place of worship
  • Turkish: şapel — place of worship
  • Turkish: musalla — place of worship
  • Turkmen: ybadathana — place of worship
  • Turkmen: musalla — place of worship
  • Ukrainian: капли́ця (kaplýcja) — place of worship
  • Urdu: مصلی (musallā) — place of worship
  • Urdu: چیپل (caipal) — place of worship
  • Urdu: نمازگاہ (namāzgāh) — place of worship
  • Uyghur: ئىبادەتخانا (ibadetxana) — place of worship
  • Uzbek: ibodatxona — place of worship
  • Uzbek: musallo — place of worship
  • Venetan: capeła — place of worship
  • Venetan: capela — place of worship
  • Venetan: casada — place of worship
  • Vietnamese: nhà nguyện — place of worship
  • Welsh: betws — place of worship
  • Welsh: capel — place of worship
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