Usually means: Area for clergy near altar.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. chancel: Merriam-Webster
  2. chancel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chancel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chancel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chancel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Chancel, chancel: Wordnik
  7. chancel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. chancel: Wiktionary
  9. chancel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. chancel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. chancel: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Chancel, chancel: Dictionary.com
  13. chancel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Chancel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Chancel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. chancel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. chancel: Rhymezone
  18. Chancel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. chancel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. chancel: FreeDictionary.org
  21. chancel: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. chancel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. chancel: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. chancel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. chancel: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. CHANCEL: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)
  3. Glossary: Gothic Art and Architecture (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chancel: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chancel: Castle Terms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chancel: Catholic Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chancel: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See chancels as well.)

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noun:  The space around the altar in a church, often enclosed, for use by the clergy and the choir. In medieval cathedrals the chancel was usually enclosed or blocked off from the nave by an altar screen.
noun:  A surname

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