funeral chapel
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- noun
- /ˈfjuːnərəl ˈʧæpəl/
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capilla funeraria
- Family members gathered at the funeral chapel to say their final goodbyes to their beloved grandmother.
Examples
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The small funeral chapel in our town is always filled with flowers and fond memories during memorial services.
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The rabbi at the funeral chapel had made the obligatory remarks concerning dust.
Fiction book (1995) -
After the service, everyone met outside the funeral chapel to share stories about the deceased.
Synonyms
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2.8
A small room for Christian worship often in a school or hospital
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A place where people prepare a dead body for burial or cremation and say goodbye
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A place where dead people are kept and prepared before burial or cremation for family to visit and pay respects
A place where people go to see a dead person and pay their respects
How Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a chapel used for a funeral' is directly derivable from combining 'funeral' (a ceremony for honoring and burying the dead) with 'chapel' (a small worship room). This regular noun+noun compounding is transparent and common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Funeral chapel combines funeral (a ceremony for someone who has died) and chapel (a small church), creating the clear image of a small church or room used for that ceremony. So today funeral chapel means the building or room where family and friends gather 'to pay their last respects' and say goodbye.