Chapel vs Synagogue - What's the difference?
chapel | synagogue |
A place of worship, smaller than, or subordinate to a church.
A place of worship in a civil institution such as an airport, prison etc.
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, title= A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.
A trade union branch in UK printing or journalism.
A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.
A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
(in Wales) Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.
(nautical) 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.
(obsolete) To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.
A place where Jews meet for worship.
A congregation of Jews for the purpose of worship or religious study.
As nouns the difference between chapel and synagogue
is that chapel is a place of worship, smaller than, or subordinate to a church while synagogue is a place where jews meet for worship.As an adjective chapel
is (in wales) describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.As a verb chapel
is (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.chapel
English
Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=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.”}}
Derived terms
* chapel of ease * father of chapel * mother of chapelAdjective
(-)- The village butcher is chapel .
Verb
(chapell)- (Beaumont and Fletcher)