The chaplain listened sympathetically to his parishioner.
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Chaplain
//ˈt͡ʃæp.lɪn//
Synonyms for "chaplain" (65 found)
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Closest matches (13)
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Related words (32)
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46 translations across 29 languages.
Arabic
4 entries- قَسّ noun (member of a religious body)
- قِسِّيس noun (member of a religious body)
- قِسّ noun (member of a religious body)
- كَاهِن noun (member of a religious body)
Bulgarian
1 entries- капела́н noun (member of a religious body)
Catalan
1 entries- capellà noun (member of a religious body)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 牧師 /牧师 noun (member of a religious body)
Czech
1 entries- kaplan noun (member of a religious body)
Danish
1 entries- kapellan noun (member of a religious body)
Dutch
1 entries- kapelaan noun (member of a religious body)
Finnish
1 entries- kappalainen noun (member of a religious body)
French
2 entries- aumônier noun (member of a religious body)
- chapelain noun (member of a religious body)
Galician
1 entries- capelán noun (member of a religious body)
German
4 entries- Gefängnisseelsorger noun (member of a religious body)
- Gefängnisseelsorgerin noun (member of a religious body)
- Kaplan noun (member of a religious body)
- Kaplanin noun (member of a religious body)
Hungarian
1 entries- káplán noun (member of a religious body)
Italian
1 entries- cappellano noun (member of a religious body)
Japanese
4 entries- チャップレン noun (member of a religious body)
- チャプレン noun (member of a religious body)
- 牧師 noun (member of a religious body)
- 軍僧 noun (member of a religious body)
Macedonian
1 entries- капела́н noun (member of a religious body)
Middle English
1 entries- chapeleyn noun (member of a religious body)
Māori
1 entries- tiaparani noun (member of a religious body)
Norman
1 entries- aumônyi noun (member of a religious body)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- feltprest noun (member of a religious body)
- kapellan noun (member of a religious body)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- feltprest noun (member of a religious body)
- kapellan noun (member of a religious body)
Old English
1 entries- handprēost noun (member of a religious body)
Old Galician-Portuguese
1 entries- capelan noun (member of a religious body)
Polish
1 entries- kapelan noun (member of a religious body)
Portuguese
1 entries- capelão noun (member of a religious body)
Russian
1 entries- капелла́н noun (member of a religious body)
Spanish
1 entries- capellán noun (member of a religious body)
Swedish
1 entries- kaplan noun (member of a religious body)
Tagalog
1 entries- kapelyan noun (member of a religious body)
Ukrainian
2 entries- капела́н noun (member of a religious body)
- капеля́н noun (member of a religious body)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
She was a five-hundred-ton boat; and besides her thirty-eight jail-birds, she carried twenty-six of a crew, eighteen soldiers, a captain, three mates, a doctor, a chaplain, and four warders.
Source: tatoeba (6981783)
Then we rushed on into the captain's cabin, but as we pushed open the door there was an explosion from within, and there he lay wit his brains smeared over the chart of the Atlantic which was pinned upon the table, while the chaplain stood with a smoking pistol in his hand at his elbow.
Source: tatoeba (6981811)
He's a Muslim chaplain.
Source: tatoeba (8246920)
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