chapterhouse.

A room or building where members of a cathedral or monastic chapter meet.

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Words that belong together

• monastic chapterhouse
• chapterhouse door

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The chapterhouse opened onto the cloister.

The community gathered in the chapterhouse.

Stone benches lined the old chapterhouse.

Usage notes

Primary category: architecture. Forms: Singular chapterhouse; plural chapterhouses. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.