Holonyms: church, cathedral
Source: wiktionary
Chancel
//ˈtʃɑːnsəl//
Synonyms for "chancel" (29 found)
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Closest matches (6)
Strong matches (9)
Related words (14)
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54 translations across 34 languages.
Armenian
2 entries- երիցունք noun (space around the altar in a church)
- սրբարան noun (space around the altar in a church)
Basque
2 entries- koru noun (space around the altar in a church)
- presbiterio noun (space around the altar in a church)
Breton
1 entries- kañsell noun (space around the altar in a church)
Bulgarian
1 entries- презвитериум noun (space around the altar in a church)
Catalan
1 entries- presbiteri noun (space around the altar in a church)
Czech
2 entries- kněžiště noun (space around the altar in a church)
- presbytář noun (space around the altar in a church)
Danish
1 entries- kor noun (space around the altar in a church)
Dutch
2 entries- hoogkoor noun (space around the altar in a church)
- priesterkoor noun (space around the altar in a church)
Esperanto
1 entries- antaŭaltaro noun (space around the altar in a church)
Estonian
2 entries- kantsel noun (space around the altar in a church)
- kooriruum noun (space around the altar in a church)
Finnish
1 entries- kuori noun (space around the altar in a church)
French
3 entries- Chancel name (Translations)
- chancel noun (space around the altar in a church)
- clôture de chœur noun (space around the altar in a church)
German
1 entries- Altarraum noun (space around the altar in a church)
Greek
1 entries- ιερό noun (space around the altar in a church)
Hungarian
1 entries- presbitérium noun (space around the altar in a church)
Irish
3 entries- córlann noun (space around the altar in a church)
- preispitéir noun (space around the altar in a church)
- saingeal noun (space around the altar in a church)
Italian
1 entries- presbiterio noun (space around the altar in a church)
Latvian
1 entries- prezbitērija noun (space around the altar in a church)
Lithuanian
1 entries- prezbiterija noun (space around the altar in a church)
Macedonian
1 entries- олтар noun (space around the altar in a church)
Manx
1 entries- carrick noun (space around the altar in a church)
Norwegian
1 entries- kor noun (space around the altar in a church)
Polish
1 entries- prezbiterium noun (space around the altar in a church)
Portuguese
1 entries- presbitério noun (space around the altar in a church)
Romanian
1 entries- prezbiteriu noun (space around the altar in a church)
Russian
2 entries- пресвите́рий noun (space around the altar in a church)
- хор noun (space around the altar in a church)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- seansal noun (space around the altar in a church)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- hor noun (space around the altar in a church)
- prezbiterium noun (space around the altar in a church)
- svetinja noun (space around the altar in a church)
- презвитериум noun (space around the altar in a church)
Slovak
3 entries- chór noun (space around the altar in a church)
- kňazište noun (space around the altar in a church)
- presbytár noun (space around the altar in a church)
Slovene
2 entries- kor noun (space around the altar in a church)
- prezbiterij noun (space around the altar in a church)
Spanish
1 entries- presbiterio noun (space around the altar in a church)
Swedish
1 entries- kor noun (space around the altar in a church)
Ukrainian
3 entries- вівтар noun (space around the altar in a church)
- пресбітерій noun (space around the altar in a church)
- хор noun (space around the altar in a church)
Welsh
1 entries- cangell noun (space around the altar in a church)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Near-synonyms: presbytery, sanctuary, apse (all broadly synonymous)
Source: wiktionary
The Citizens in their rage, imagining that euery poſt in the Churche had bin one of yᵉ Souldyers, ſhot habbe or nabbe at randon^([sic – meaning random]) uppe to the Roode lofte, and to the Chancell, leauing ſome of theyr arrowes ſticking in the Images.
Source: wiktionary
Hester Earle and Violet Wayne were moving about the aisle with bundles of wheat-ears and streamers of ivy, for the harvest thanksgiving was shortly to be celebrated, while the vicar stood waiting for their directions on the chancel steps with a great handful of crimson gladioli.
Source: wiktionary
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