chapter
UK /ˈt͡ʃæptə(r)/ · US /ˈt͡ʃæptɚ/ noun, verb
Forms chapters chaptering chaptered chapiter chapitre chapiture chaptre chapyter chapytre chaptire
- noun 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.”
- noun 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.
- noun 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.
- noun A community of canons or canonesses.
- noun A bishop's council.
- noun An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area.
- noun An organized branch of some society or fraternity, such as the Freemasons.
- noun A meeting of a chapter of certain organized societies or orders.
- verb To divide into chapters.
- verb To put into a chapter.
- verb (military, with "out") To use administrative procedure to remove someone.
- verb (transitive) To take to task.
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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.
Webster’s 1913
- noun A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters.
- noun (a) 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.
- verb To divide into chapters, as a book. Fuller.
- verb To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse.
Etymology [OF. chapitre, F. chapitre, fr. L. capitulum, dim. of caput head, the chief person or thing, the principal division of a writing, chapter. See Chief, and cf, Chapiter.]
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “chapter”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details