chapter house

chapter house
UK / US noun [countable]
Word forms "chapter house":
singular chapter house plural chapter houses
1) a building where the priests who work in a cathedral have their meetings
2) American a meeting place for students who are members of a fraternity or sorority at a university

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  • Chapter House — • A building attached to a monastery or cathedral in which the meetings of the chapter are held Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Chapter House     Chapter House      …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • Chapter house — Chapter Chap ter, n. [OF. chapitre, F. chapitre, fr. L. capitulum, dim. of caput head, the chief person or thing, the principal division of a writing, chapter. See {Chief}, and cf, {Chapiter}.] 1. A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Chapter-house — (engl., spr. tschäppter haus), Kapitelhaus, ein vier oder mehreckiger Anbau an englische Kathedralen, in dem sich das Domkapitel zu seinen Sitzungen zu versammeln pflegte …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

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  • chapter house — 1. Eccles. a building attached to or a hall forming part of a cathedral or monastery, used as a meeting place for the chapter. 2. a building used by a chapter of a society, fraternity, sorority, etc. [bef. 1150; ME chapitelhus, OE captelhus] * *… …   Universalium

  • chapter house — noun a) A building attached to a cathedral, church, or monastery and used as a meeting place. 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,… …   Wiktionary

  • Chapter house (Navajo Nation) — This article is about the Navajo administrative meeting place. For the term applied in church architecture, see Chapter house. A Chapter house (Navajo: Áłah nidaʼadleeh dah bighan) is an administrative, communal meeting place on the territory of… …   Wikipedia

  • Chi Omega Chapter House — U.S. National Register of Historic Places …   Wikipedia

  • Michigan Alpha Chapter House of Phi Delta Theta — The Phi Delta Theta House located at 1437 Washtenaw Ave., Ann Arbor, Michigan, is a splendid example of Georgian Revival architecture. The house, finished in 1903, is on the Michigan Register of Historic Places. It is located near the southeast… …   Wikipedia

  • Sigma Alpha Epsilon Chapter House of Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) — Infobox nrhp name = Sigma Aplpha Epsilon Chapter House of Miami University caption = location = Oxford, Ohio architect = Russell S. Potter cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007 06… …   Wikipedia

  • Pi Chapter House of Psi Upsilon Fraternity — Infobox nrhp | name =Pi Chapter House of Psi Upsilon Fraternity nrhp type = caption = location= Syracuse, New York lat degrees = 43 lat minutes = 2 lat seconds = 21.63 lat direction = N long degrees = 76 long minutes = 7 long seconds = 53.8 long… …   Wikipedia

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