Convent vs Chapel - What's the difference?
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A religious community whose members (especially nuns) live under strict observation of religious rules and self-imposed vows.
The buildings and pertaining surroundings in which such a community lives.
* Addison
A gathering of people lasting several days for the purpose of discussing or working on topics previously selected.
A coming together; a meeting.
* Ben Jonson
(obsolete) To call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene.
* 1613 , , V. i. 52:
(obsolete) To meet together; to concur.
(obsolete) To be convenient; to serve.
* 1599 , , V. i. 379:
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 convent and chapel
is that convent is a religious community whose members (especially nuns) live under strict observation of religious rules and self-imposed vows while chapel is a place of worship, smaller than, or subordinate to a church.As verbs the difference between convent and chapel
is that convent is to call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene 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.convent
English
(wikipedia convent)Noun
(en noun)- One seldom finds in Italy a spot of ground more agreeable than ordinary that is not covered with a convent .
- a usual ceremony at their [the witches'] convents or meetings
See also
* monastery * nunneryVerb
(en verb)- Tomorrow morning to the Council board / He be convented .
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
- When that is known and golden time convents .
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)
