Cloister vs Chapel - What's the difference?
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A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle; especially:
# such arcade in a monastery
# such arcade fitted with representations of the stages of Christ's Passion
A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
(figuratively) The monastic life
To become a Roman Catholic religious.
To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
To provide with (a) cloister(s).
To protect or isolate.
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.
As nouns the difference between cloister and chapel
is that cloister is a covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle; especially while chapel is a place of worship, smaller than, or subordinate to a church.As verbs the difference between cloister and chapel
is that cloister is to become a Roman Catholic religious while chapel is 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 an adjective chapel is
describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.cloister
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Alternative forms
* cloistre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* cloistralVerb
(en verb)- ''The architect cloistered the college just like the monastery which founded it
Synonyms
* (become a Catholic religious) enter religionDerived terms
* cloistered * cloistererSee also
* abbey * hermitage * monastery * nunneryAnagrams
* * * *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)
