The difference between Chapel and Church
When used as nouns, chapel means a place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church, whereas church means a christian house of worship.
When used as verbs, chapel means 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, whereas church means to conduct a religious service for (a woman after childbirth, or a newly married couple).
Chapel is also adjective with the meaning: describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.
check bellow for the other definitions of Chapel and Church
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Chapel as a noun:
A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
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Chapel as a noun:
A place of worship in a civil institution such as an airport, prison etc.
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Chapel as a noun:
A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.
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Chapel as a noun:
A trade union branch in UK printing or journalism.
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Chapel as a noun:
A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.
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Chapel as a noun:
A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
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Chapel as an adjective (Wales):
Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.
Examples:
"The village butcher is chapel''."
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Chapel as a verb (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.
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Chapel as a verb (obsolete, transitive):
To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.
Examples:
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Church as a noun (countable):
A Christian house of worship; a building where religious services take place.
Examples:
"There is a lovely little church in the valley."
"This building used to be a church before being converted into a library."
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Church as a noun:
Christians collectively seen as a single spiritual community; Christianity.
Examples:
"These worshippers make up the Church of Christ."
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Church as a noun (countable):
A local group of people who follow the same Christian religious beliefs, local or general.
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Church as a noun (countable):
A particular denomination of Christianity.
Examples:
"The Church of England separated from the Roman Catholic Church in 1534."
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Church as a noun (uncountable, countable, as bare noun):
Christian worship held at a church; service.
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Church as a noun:
A (non-Christian) religion; a religious group.
Examples:
"She goes to a Wiccan church down the road."
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Church as a noun:
assembly
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Church as a verb (transitive, now, _, historical):
To conduct a religious service for (a woman after childbirth, or a newly married couple).
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Church as a verb (transitive):
To educate someone religiously, as in in a church.