chancel
pronunciation
How to pronounce chancel in British English:
UK [ˈtʃɑ:nsl]
How to pronounce chancel in American English:
US [ˈtʃænsl]
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- Noun:
- area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing
Word Origin
- chancel (n.)
- c. 1300, "part of the church around the altar," from Old French chancel, from Late Latin cancellus "lattice," from Latin cancelli (plural) "grating, bars" (see cancel); sense extended in Late Latin from the lattice-work that separated the choir from the nave in a church to the space itself.
Example
- 1. My chancel - all the plain .
- 2. Could keep a chancel cool .
- 3. Do you think she 'll come ? -- " Not a chancel "
- 4. An enclosed seat in the chancel of a church .
- 5. The central part of a church , extending from the narthex to the chancel and flanked by aisles .