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kirk
English
Etymology
Either from Old Norse kirkja (Middle English kyrke) or Old English cirice.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k??k/
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /k??k/
- Rhymes: -??(?)k
Noun
kirk (plural kirks)
- (Northern England and Scotland) a church.
Derived terms
Scots
Etymology
From Old Norse kirkja or Old English cirice.
Noun
kirk (plural kirks)
- church
- temple
Verb
kirk (third-person singular present kirks, present participle kirkin, past kirkit, past participle kirkit)
- (transitive) to bring to church for burial
See also
- kirkit
References
- “kirk” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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chapel
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)
- (especially Christianity) A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
- 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.
- A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.
- (Britain) A trade union branch in printing or journalism.
- A printing office.
- A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
chapel (not comparable)
- (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)
- (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.
- (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)
- 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
- aspirate mutation of capel
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