chapter house

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A building attached to a cathedral, church, or monastery and used as a meeting place.
    — The cloister, and the chapter-house adjoining to the church, are the finest here of any I have seen in England; the latter is octagon, or eight-square, and is 150 feet in its circumference.
  2. A building used by a sorority or fraternity as a residence or meeting place.
    — At the house-party herein represented a murder is done, and the locale of the deed is a chapter house on the pleasant campus at Williamston, Mass.

词形变化

chapter houses plural chapter-house alternative chapterhouse alternative
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