chapter

Meaning

Noun

1. One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.
2. One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.
3. Certain ecclesiastical bodies (under canon law)
4. Certain ecclesiastical bodies (under canon law)
5. Certain ecclesiastical bodies (under canon law)
6. A section of a social body.
7. A section of a social body.
8. A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
9. A chapter house
10. A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
11. (obsolete) 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.

Hyphenated as

chap‧ter

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈt͡ʃæptə/

Etymology

From Middle English chapiter, 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.