Chapel vs Temple - What's the difference?
chapel | temple |
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 building for worship.
(often, capitalized) The Jewish temple of Jerusalem, first built by Solomon.
Something regarded as holding religious presence.
Something of importance; something attended to.
(obsolete) A body.
* 1602 , (William Shakespeare), , act 1, scene 3, lines 11–14:
Hands held together with forefingers outstretched and touching pad to pad, with the rest of the fingers clasped.
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To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to.
(anatomy) The slightly flatter region, on either side of the head, back of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch and in front of the ear.
(ophthalmology) Either of the sidepieces on a set of spectacles, extending backwards from the hinge toward the ears and, usually, turning down around them.
As a noun chapel
is a place of worship, smaller than, or subordinate to a church.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.As a proper noun temple is
.chapel
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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)
Anagrams
* ----temple
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) temple, from (etyl) templ, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- The temple of Zeus was very large.
- My body is my temple.
- For nature crescent does not grow alone
- In thews and bulks, but as this temple waxes,
- The inward service of the mind and soul
- Grows wide withal.
Synonyms
* house of worshipDerived terms
* templelike * Temple Mount * Temple of Heaven * temple of immensityVerb
(templ)- to temple a god
- (Feltham)
