different between nunnery vs chapel

English

Etymology

From Middle English nonnery, nonnerie, equivalent to nun +? -ery.

Pronunciation

Noun

nunnery (plural nunneries)

1. (archaic) a place of residence for nuns; a convent
2. (slang, obsolete) a brothel
   • 1601: Shakespeare, Hamlet III.i

     Get thee to a nunnery, why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?

Hypernyms

• monastery

Translations

See also

• abbess
• cloister
• convent
• nun

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