chapelとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English chapele, chapel, from Old French chapele, from Late Latin cappella (“little cloak; chapel”), diminutive of cappa (“cloak, cape”).^[1] Doublet of capelle.

(printing office): Said to be because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃæ.pəl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃæ.pəl/
• (米国発音)
• 韻: -æpəl

名詞

chapel (複数形 chapels)

1. (especially Christianity) 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.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 3, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”

3. A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.
4. (Britain) A trade union branch in printing or journalism.
5. A printing office.
6. A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.

派生語

形容詞

chapel (not comparable)

1. (Wales) Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.

   The village butcher is chapel.

動詞

chapel (三人称単数 現在形 chapels, 現在分詞 chapelling, 過去形および過去分詞形 chapelled)

1. (nautical, 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.
   • 1613–1614, William Shakespeare; John Fletcher, “The Two Noble Kinsmen.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, OCLC 3083972, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, かつ the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     give us the bones Of our dead kings, that we may chapel them!

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