From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishchaplainchap‧lain /ˈtʃæplɪn/ noun [countable] RRCa priest or other religious minister responsible for the religious needs of a club, the army, a hospital etc the prison chaplain
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chaplain• He acts as chaplain to the students.• He now leads a busy life as an honorary chaplain in York Minster.• Also patron of chaplains and military chaplains.• By 1257 he was a canon of Lichfield and a papal chaplain.• Reverend Edwards is the new prison chaplain.• His regiment's chaplain spoke of him in the warmest terms as a man of the highest principles.• He was accused of molesting a 14-year-old boy whom he had been counselling while working as a school chaplain.• Never did I feel so tempted and pressed to relinquish the chaplain service and yield all to the control of Satan.Origin chaplain (1100-1200) Old French chapelain, from Medieval Latin cappellanus, from cappella; → CHAPEL 