chapter house

Definitions

1. 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.
   • In the center lay the broad Abbey buildings, with church and cloisters, hospitium, chapter-house and frater-house, all buzzing with a busy life.
2. 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.

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