Chapel

n.	1.	A subordinate place of worship
	2.	A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison.
	3.	In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse.
	4.	A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
	5.	(Print.) A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey. Chapel of ease a - A chapel or dependent church built for the ease or a accommodation of an increasing parish, or for parishioners who live at a distance from the principal church. b - A privy. Chapel master (Law) a director of music in a chapel; the director of a court or orchestra. To build a chapel (Naut.) to chapel a ship. See Chapel, v. t., 2. To hold a chapel to have a meeting of the men employed in a printing office, for the purpose of considering questions affecting their interests.
v. t.	1.	To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.
	2.	(Naut.) To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) so to turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.

Noun	1.	chapel - a place of worship that has its own altar
	2.	chapel - a service conducted in a chapel; "he was late for chapel" Synonyms: chapel service

Lady chapel, amphitheater, arena, assembly hall, auditorium, chantry, chapel of ease, chapel royal, concert hall, convention hall, dance hall, exhibition hall, gallery, hall, lecture hall, meetinghouse, music hall, opera house, oratorium, oratory, sacellum, sacrament chapel, sacrarium, school chapel, side chapel, stadium, theater

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