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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chapel/#m1)

2) A chapel is a small part of a large church or cathedral with its own altar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chapel/#m2)

3) (UK) Chapel is also the church of some Protestant groups, such as Methodists or Baptists, especially in Wales: "We go to chapel." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chapel/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chapel/#x1)
- They got married in a chapel by the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chapel/#x2)
- The hospital chapel is open for anyone who wants to pray or be quiet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chapel/#x3)
- St George's Chapel is at Windsor Castle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chapel/#x4)
- Grandma goes to chapel every Sunday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chapel/#x5)
- The cathedral has many side chapels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chapel/#x6)
- The family visited Grandad at the chapel of rest to say goodbye. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chapel/#x7)
- It had the appearance of a chapel for the dead, with petrified organs and silent pipes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chapel/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/42-olympiad-picture-puzzles/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «chapel» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chapel/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.