Meaning of Apse | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The rounded east end of a church that contains or is behind the altar.
2. An aspen tree.
   dialectal, obsolete
3. The interior portion of this section of the church building, excluding the ambulatory and any apse chapels.
4. A semicircular projection from any building that is similar to a church's apse.
5. The bishop's seat or throne in ancient churches.
6. A reliquary: a case in which the relics of saints are kept.

Equivalents

Examples

“Holonyms: church, cathedral”

“Meronyms: ambulatory, apse chapels”

“Near-synonyms: chancel, presbytery, sanctuary (all broadly synonymous)”

“Our private tour of the cathedral even allowed us to walk⟳ through the apse, which most tours don't.”

“The draughtsman could not have⟳ held the sheet with the apse at the tip⟳, for then, instead of shading away from the edge, most of his hatched lines would begin⟳ in the uncharted middle ground of a shadeable area, to strike⟳ against the contour; […]”

“The college has an apse that once held a small chapel.”

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