English Dictionary

chapter house

noun

A building attached to a cathedral, church, or monastery and used as a meeting place. / A building used by a sorority or fraternity as a residence or meeting place.

The chapter house is a beautiful building attached to the cathedral.

意味（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.

意味（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.