Hermitage vs Chapel - What's the difference?
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A house or dwelling where a hermit lives.
A place of seclusion.
A period of seclusion.
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 hermitage and chapel
is that hermitage is a house or dwelling where a hermit lives while chapel is a place of worship, smaller than, or subordinate to a church.As an adjective chapel is
describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.As a verb 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.hermitage
English
Noun
(en noun)chapel
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Noun
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Derived terms
* chapel of ease * father of chapel * mother of chapelAdjective
(-)- The village butcher is chapel .
Verb
(chapell)- (Beaumont and Fletcher)