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chapter

Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃæptə(r)/

The English word “chapter” has 16 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. One of the main sections into which a published work is divided, especially a book.
  2. A section of a work, a collection of works, or fragments of works, often manuscripts or transcriptions, created by scholars or advocates, not the original authors, to aid in finding portions of the texts.
  3. An assembly of monks, prebendaries and/or other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.
  4. A community of canons or canonesses.
  5. A bishop's council.
  6. An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area.
  7. An organized branch of some society or fraternity, such as the Freemasons.
  8. A meeting of a chapter of certain organized societies or orders.
  9. A chapter house
  10. A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
  11. A location or compartment.
  12. A prescribed reading at one of the canonical hours.

verb

  1. To divide into chapters.
  2. To put into a chapter.
  3. To use administrative procedure to remove someone.
  4. To take to task.

Etymology

From Middle English chapitre, from Old French chapitre, from Latin capitulum (“a chapter of a book, in Medieval Latin also a synod or council”), diminutive of caput (“a head”); see capital, capitulum, and chapiter, which are doublets of chapter.

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