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chapter house en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A building attached to a cathedral, church, or monastery and used as a meeting place.
   • In the center lay the broad Abbey buildings, with church and cloisters, hospitium, chapter-house and frater-house, all buzzing with a busy life. 1906, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 2, in Sir Nigel:
   • The cloister, and the chapter-house adjoining to the church, are the finest here of any I have seen in England; the latter is octagon, or eight-square, and is 150 feet in its circumference. 1724, Daniel Defoe, Journey from London to the Land's End:
2. A building used by a sorority or fraternity as a residence or meeting place.
   • At the house-party herein represented a murder is done, and the locale of the deed is a chapter house on the pleasant campus at Williamston, Mass. 1929 September 23, “New Plays in Manhattan”, in Time:

Forms

Hypernyms

house

Synonyms

Greek house (building used by a sorority or fraternity)

Translations (4)

ang capitolhūs (church building used as a meeting place) · de Kapitelsaal (church building used as a meeting place) · fr salle capitulaire (church building used as a meeting place) · nl kapittelzaal (church building used as a meeting place)