chaplet

About 0.09 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A garland or circlet for the head.
2. noun A headdress in the form of a wreath made of leaves, flowers or twigs woven into a ring.
3. noun A string (of beads), especially when making up five decades of the rosary.
4. noun A set of repetitive prayers, other than the Rosary, typically prayed with a string of beads.

   The Chaplet of the Seven Sorrows of Mary consists of seven sets of Hail Marys.

5. noun The Chaplet of Divine Mercy, the most well-known chaplet in the Catholic Church.

   People often pray the chaplet at 3:00 pm to commemorate Jesus' death.

6. noun A series of spores or other objects arranged like beads on a string.
7. noun A molding in the form of a string of beads; a bead molding.
8. noun A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mould.

Similar words

garland coronal wreath lei tiara orle anadem circlet capstring capeline

Often followed by

of on and for in which or is was

Word family

chapleted chaplets