chapter
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
chapter (plural chapters)
- (authorship) One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.
- Detective novel writers try to keep up the suspense until the last chapter.
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:
- At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
- A section of a social or religious body.
- An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area.
- An assembly of monks, or of the prebends and 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 organized branch of some society or fraternity, such as the Freemasons.
- A meeting 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. ¶ "Because I am of a sanguine disposition, like you. I mean to trust to the chapter of accidents to the very last. Mr. Armadale may die yet, on his way home."
- 1866, Wilkie Collins, Armadale, Book the Last, Chapter I,
- A decretal epistle.
- (obsolete) A location or compartment.
- c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or VVhat You VVill”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene v]:
- In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom?
- ch., chpt. (abbreviations)
- French: chapitre
- German: Kapitel, Abschnitt
- Italian: capitolo
- Portuguese: capítulo
- Russian: глава́
- Spanish: capítulo
- French: branche, section
- German: Verband, Ortsverband, Sektion
- Portuguese: divisão, capítulo
- Russian: филиа́л
- Spanish: sede, capítulo, sección
chapter (chapters, present participle chaptering; past and past participle chaptered)
- To divide into chapters.
- To put into a chapter.
- (military, with "out") To use administrative procedure to remove someone.
- (transitive) To take to task.
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