Crossword-Solution: APSE 4 letters, 785 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

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Word Word Type Definition
Apse n. A projecting part of a building, esp. of a church, having in
the plan a polygonal or semicircular termination, and, most often,
projecting from the east end. In early churches the Eastern apse was
occupied by seats for the bishop and clergy.
Apse n. The bishop's seat or throne, in ancient churches.
Apse n. A reliquary, or case in which the relics of saints were kept.

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Word Anagrams
APSE anagram APES, ASPE, EPAS, PAES, PASE, PEAS, PESA, SEAP, SEPA, SPAE, SPEA

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A concha tops it 1 answer
A vaulted recess 1 answer
A wing for a prayer 1 answer
Abbey alcove 1 answer
Abbey nook 1 answer
Abbey recess 1 answer
Abbey section 1 answer
Abbey space 1 answer
Addendum to a nave. 1 answer
Alcove for an altar 1 answer
Alcove near the chancel 1 answer
Altar adjoiner 1 answer
Altar alcove 1 answer
Altar enclosure, often 1 answer
Altar end of a church 1 answer
Altar end. 1 answer
Altar locale, at times 1 answer
Altar location 1 answer
Altar place 1 answer
Altar section of a church 1 answer
Altar setting 1 answer
Altar site 1 answer
Altar spot 1 answer
Altar spot, perhaps 1 answer
Altar's alcove 1 answer
Altar's area 1 answer
Altar's church section, often 1 answer
Altar's locale 1 answer
Altar's milieu 1 answer
Altar's neighbor 1 answer
Altar's place 1 answer
Altar's place, typically 1 answer
Ambulatory abutment 1 answer
Ambulatory access 1 answer
Ambulatory setting 1 answer
Anagram for "peas" 1 answer
Arched church roof 1 answer
Architectural area whose name comes from the Greek for "vault" 1 answer
Architectural feature that's an anagram of "peas" 1 answer
Arcing recess 1 answer
Area abutting a transept 1 answer
Area at an end of a church 1 answer
Area at one end of a church 1 answer
Area at the end of the choir 1 answer
Area behind a high altar 1 answer
Area behind an altar 1 answer
Area behind the choir, perhaps 1 answer
Church recess near the altar 1 answer
Area beyond the altar 1 answer
Area for parishioners 1 answer
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Sentences with APSE (5)

The stricken tocsin quivers through the tower; The triple nave, the apse, the lonely choir Are circled, hour by hour, With thundering bands of fire And Death is scattered broadcast among men.
Main Street and Other Poems Alfred Joyce Kilmer 2008
See this rose window, which is from the model of the Church of the Holy Trinity at Vendome, and this other of the 'Finding of the Grail,' which is for the apse of the Abbey church.
The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle 1997
Behind the apse of the chancel, lay the cemetery, enclosed with a dilapidated wall,--a little field full of hillocks; no marble monuments, no visitors, but surely in every furrow, tears and true regrets, which were lacking to Ida Gruget.
Ferragus Honore de Balzac 1999
The side which communicated with the parsonage, toward the north, was not less decorated; the wall was gray and red with moss and lichen; but the other side and the apse, around which lay the cemetery, was covered with a wealth of varied blooms.
The Village Rector Honore de Balzac 1999
When the mission priests went through all the provinces to restore the crosses that had been destroyed and to efface the traces of revolutionary impiety, this widow was one of their most zealous proselytes, she carried a cross and nailed to it a silver heart pierced by an arrow; and, for a long time after, she went every evening to pray at the foot of the cross which was erected behind the Cathedral apse.
The Muse of the Department Honore de Balzac 1999

Quotes with APSE (2)

He insisted on clearing the table, and again devoted himself to his game of patience: piecing together the map of Paris, the bits of which he’d stuffed into the pocket of his raincoat, folded up any old how. I helped him. Then he asked me, straight out, ‘What would you say was the true centre of Paris?’I was taken aback, wrong-footed. I thought this knowledge was part of a whole body of very rarefied and secret lore. Playing for time, I said, ‘The starting point of France’s r…
Jacques Yonnet Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City
All these things and, still more than these, the treasures which had come to the church from personages who to me were almost legendary figures (such as the golden cross wrought, it was said, by Saint Eloi and presented by Dagobert, and the tomb of the sons of Louis the Germanic in porphyry and enamelled copper), because of which I used to go forward into the church when we were making our way to our chairs as into a fairy-haunted valley, where the rustic sees with amazement …
Marcel Proust In Search of Lost Time
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Used 1,772 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).