Meaning of Chancel | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname
2. The space around the altar in a church or cathedral, often enclosed, for use by the clergy and the choir. In medieval cathedrals the chancel was usually enclosed or blocked off from the nave by an altar screen.
3. The entire end of the church in which the altar stands, including the apse and the ambulatory.
   broadly
4. A certain central portion of that end of the church, excluding the apse and the ambulatory.

Equivalents

Examples

“Holonyms: church, cathedral”

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

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“Hester Earle and Violet Wayne were moving about the aisle with bundles of wheat-ears and streamers of ivy, for the harvest thanksgiving was shortly to be celebrated, while the vicar stood waiting for their directions on the chancel steps with a great handful of crimson gladioli.”

“Meronyms: presbytery, sanctuary, apse, ambulatory”

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