chaplain
/ˈtʃaplɪn
/noun
A member of the clergy attached to a private chapel, institution, ship, regiment, etc. a prison chaplain...
- Prison chaplains reflect the same wide variety of theological beliefs as religious leaders on the other side of the bars.
- He also was meeting Evangelical chaplains, who seemed to possess something that he lacked.
- Each morning we got together to hear God's Word preached by the chaplain.
Derivatives
chaplaincy
/ noun ...- The parish is the historic home of the Catholic chaplaincy at Harvard.
- Social ministry organizations, schools, colleges and chaplaincies to work together to advance the gospel and the common good.
- The book is a good introduction to the history and basic challenges of military chaplaincy.
Origin
Middle English: from Old French chapelain, from medieval Latin cappellanus, originally denoting a custodian of the cloak of St Martin, from cappella, originally 'little cloak' (see chapel).
Rhymes
- latent caloric
- latent fingerprint
- latent function
- latent heat
- latent homosexuality
- latent image
- latent learning
- latently
- latentness
- latent period
- latent print
- latent root
- latent virus
- late-onset
- late-picked
- later
- -later
- laterad
- lateral
- lateral branch
- lateral control
- lateral cut
- lateralise
- laterality
- lateralization