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chapter
- /ˈt͡ʃæptə(r)/ UK
- /ˈt͡ʃæptɚ/ US
Rhymes with -æptə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
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.
noun chapters · chapiter · chapitre · chapiture · chaptre · chapyter
- One of the main sections into which a published work is divided, especially a book. Detective novel writers try to keep up the suspense until the last chapter.
- 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. CHAPTER - One of the principal divisions of a book, and, in reference to the Bible, one of the larger sections into which its books are divided. This division, as well as that consisting of verses, was introduced to facilitate reference, and not to indicate any natural or accurate division of the su
- 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.
- A community of canons or canonesses.
- A bishop's council.
- An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area.
- An organized branch of some society or fraternity, such as the Freemasons. If the By-Law which admits honorary members is silent upon their rights, they may perhaps be determined by a consideration of which of these classes was intended by the Chapter in admitting them
- A meeting of a chapter of certain organized societies or orders.
- A chapter house
- A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue. 1866, Wilkie Collins, Armadale, Book the Last, Chapter I, "You know that Mr. Armadale is alive," pursued the doctor, "and you know that he is coming back to England. Why do you continue to wear your widow's dress?" ¶ She answered him without an instant's hesitation, steadily going on with her work.
- A location or compartment. In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom?
- A prescribed reading at one of the canonical hours.
verb chapters · chaptering · chaptered · chapiter · chapitre
- To divide into chapters.
- To put into a chapter.
- To use administrative procedure to remove someone. If you're a single parent [soldier] and you can't find someone to take care of your children, they will chapter you out [administrative elimination from the service]. And yet if you use someone not certified, they get mad.
- To take to task.
