different between convent vs chapel

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English convent, variant of covent, from Old French covent, from Latin conventus, perfect participle of the verb convenio (whence ultimately convene), see con- + venio. Doublet of coven

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?n.v?nt/, /?k?n.v?nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?n.v?nt/
• Hyphenation: con?vent

Noun

convent (plural convents)

1. A religious community whose members (especially nuns) live under strict observation of religious rules and self-imposed vows.
2. The buildings and pertaining surroundings in which such a community lives.

   • One seldom finds in Italy a spot of ground more agreeable than ordinary that is not covered with a convent.

3. (India) A Christian school.
4. A gathering of people lasting several days for the purpose of discussing or working on topics previously selected.
5. A coming together; a meeting.
   • 1609, Ben Jonson, The Masque of Queens

     an usual ceremony at their [the witches'] convents or meetings

Related terms

Translations

See also

• monastery
• nunnery

Etymology 2

From Latin convenio (past participle conventus), whence also convene; so of the same ultimate origin as Etymology 1.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?v?nt/

Verb

convent (third-person singular simple present convents, present participle conventing, simple past and past participle convented)

1. (obsolete) To call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene.
   • 1613, William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth, V. i. 52:

     Tomorrow morning to the Council board
     He be convented.

2. (obsolete) To meet together; to concur.

   • We convent nought else but woes

3. (obsolete) To be convenient; to serve.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, V. i. 379:

     When that is known and golden time convents.

Anagrams

• convnet

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin conventus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /kom?vent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kum?ben/

Noun

convent m (plural convents)

1. convent (building)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin conventus. See also the doublet couvent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.v??/

Noun

convent m (plural convents)

1. (archaic, rare) convent, nunnery

Related terms

• convention

Further reading

• “convent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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