chapel

«chapel» in Mova's school dictionary: a small church, or a room for Christian prayer inside a… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a chapel, chapels)

meaning for a pupil

1) (church) A chapel is a small church, or a room for Christian prayer inside a bigger building such as a school, hospital, prison, palace or airport. tree →

2) A chapel is a small part of a large church or cathedral with its own altar. tree →

3) (UK) Chapel is also the church of some Protestant groups, such as Methodists or Baptists, especially in Wales: "We go to chapel." tree →

sense in the lessons

In church-life lessons, schools with chapels hold services there; in stories, weddings and quiet prayers happen in chapels. Royal weddings have taken place in St George's Chapel at Windsor. Phrases: «school chapel», «a wedding chapel», «go to chapel», «chapel of rest» (where a person who has died lies before the funeral).

examples

• Our school has a little chapel where we have assembly on Fridays. tree →
• They got married in a chapel by the sea. tree →
• The hospital chapel is open for anyone who wants to pray or be quiet. tree →
• St George's Chapel is at Windsor Castle. tree →
• Grandma goes to chapel every Sunday. tree →
• The cathedral has many side chapels. tree →
• The family visited Grandad at the chapel of rest to say goodbye. tree →
• It had the appearance of a chapel for the dead, with petrified organs and silent pipes. tree →

note

Countable noun: a chapel, chapels. In UK English «go to chapel» without «the» means attending services there. A chapel is smaller than a church; a cathedral is the main church of a bishop.

In the corpora

• Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling standing on a scaffold and bending his head back, not lying down.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «chapel» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.