sistine chapel

1. 1.

   the private chapel of the popes in Rome; it was built by and named after Sixtus IV in 1473

   Broaderchapel

   Part ofRome

Questions about sistine chapel

What does sistine chapel mean?

sistine chapel means "the private chapel of the popes in Rome; it was built by and named after Sixtus IV in 1473".

Is sistine chapel a common word?

sistine chapel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.