Usually means: Spiritual guide in secular institutions.
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  1. chaplain: Merriam-Webster
  2. chaplain: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chaplain: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chaplain: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chaplain: Vocabulary.com
  6. Chaplain, chaplain: Wordnik
  7. chaplain: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. chaplain: Wiktionary
  9. chaplain: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. chaplain: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. chaplain: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Chaplain, chaplain: Dictionary.com
  13. chaplain: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. chaplain: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Chaplain: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Chaplain: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. chaplain: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. chaplain: Rhymezone
  19. chaplain: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. chaplain: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. chaplain: FreeDictionary.org
  22. chaplain: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. chaplain: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. chaplain: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Chaplain: Legal dictionary

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  1. chaplain: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Alzheimer's Association Medical Glossary (No longer online)
  2. chaplain: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  3. chaplain: Medical dictionary

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Chaplain)

▸ noun:  A member of a religious body who is (often, although not always, of the clergy) officially assigned to provide pastoral care at an institution, group, private chapel, etc.
▸ noun:  A person without religious affiliation who carries out similar duties in a secular context.
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:
chap., Chapling, chappellane, chaplainship, chapelman, chaplainry, conduct, chapellany, chapelwarden, archchaplain, more...

Opposite:
layperson, secular, non-religious

Phrases:
prison chaplain, hospital chaplain, Military chaplain, court chaplain, police chaplain, more...

Adjectives:
domestic, military, royal, first, private, former, own, senior, protestant, english, young

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Similar:
chap., Chapling, chappellane, chaplainship, chapelman, chaplainry, conduct, chapellany, chapelwarden, archchaplain, more...

Opposite:
layperson, secular, non-religious

Phrases:
prison chaplain, hospital chaplain, Military chaplain, court chaplain, police chaplain, imperial chaplain, Chaplain of the United States Senate, Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives, more...

Adjectives:
domestic, military, royal, first, private, former, own, senior, protestant, english, young

Colors:
    black,     white,     purple,     gold,     blue, more...



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