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"Church recess"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /æps/Part of speech nounSorted aepsStarts with AEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
1A2P3S4E

Definitions

  1. A rounded or vaulted end of a church, often where the altar stands.

Word origin

From Latin apsis, hapsis, from Ancient Greek ἁψίς (hapsís, “arch, vault”), from ἅπτω (háptō, “to bind, join”).

Used in a sentence

  • Holonyms: church, cathedral
  • Meronyms: ambulatory, apse chapels
  • Near-synonyms: chancel, presbytery, sanctuary (all broadly synonymous)

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

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