chapter house
See also: chapterhouse and chapter-house
English
Alternative forms
Noun
chapter house (plural chapter houses)
- A building attached to a cathedral, church, or monastery and used as a meeting place.
- 1724, Daniel Defoe, "Journey from London to the Land's End":
- 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.
- 1906, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 2, in Sir Nigel:
- In the center lay the broad Abbey buildings, with church and cloisters, hospitium, chapter-house and frater-house, all buzzing with a busy life.
- 1724, Daniel Defoe, "Journey from London to the Land's End":
- A building used by a sorority or fraternity as a residence or meeting place.
- 1929 Sep. 23, "New Plays in Manhattan," Time:
- 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 Sep. 23, "New Plays in Manhattan," Time:
Synonyms
- (building used by a sorority or fraternity): Greek house
Hypernyms
Translations
church building used as a meeting place
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References
- “chapter house”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.