different between chapel vs minster

English

Etymology

From Middle English chapel, chapelle, from Old French chapele, from Late Latin cappella (“little cloak; chapel”), diminutive of cappa (“cloak, cape”). Doublet of capelle.

(printing office): Said to be because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?æ.p?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?æ.p?l/
• (US)
• Rhymes: -æp?l

Noun

chapel (plural chapels)

1. (especially Christianity) A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
2. A place of worship in another building or within a civil institution such as a larger church, airport, prison, monastery, school, etc.; often primarily for private prayer.
3. A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.
4. (Britain) A trade union branch in printing or journalism.
5. A printing office.
6. A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

chapel (not comparable)

1. (Wales) Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.

Verb

chapel (third-person singular simple present chapels, present participle chapelling, simple past and past participle chapelled)

1. (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.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.

   • give us the bones Of our dead kings, that we may chapel them!

References

Anagrams

• Lepcha, cephal-, pleach

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *cappellus, diminutive of Late Latin cappa.

Noun

chapel m (oblique plural chapeaus or chapeax or chapiaus or chapiax or chapels, nominative singular chapeaus or chapeax or chapiaus or chapiax or chapels, nominative plural chapel)

1. hat (item of clothing used to cover the head)

Related terms

• chape

Descendants

• Gallo: chapai
• Middle French: chappeau
  • French: chapeau
• Norman: chape
• Walloon: tchapea

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ap?l/

Noun

chapel

1. aspirate mutation of capel

English

Etymology

From Middle English menstre, from Old English mynster, from Latin monast?rium (“monastery”), from Ancient Greek ??????????? (monast?rion, “monastery; solitary dwelling”). Doublet of monastery.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?nst?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?nst?/
• Hyphenation: min?ster

Noun

minster (plural minsters)

1. A monastic church.
2. A cathedral church without any monastic connection.

Usage notes

Not to be confused with minister.

Derived terms

• Axminster
• Ilminster
• Westminster

Translations

Anagrams

• Minters, entrism, minters, remints