chapter

Meanings

Noun

  • One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.
  • Certain ecclesiastical bodies (under canon law)
  • A section of a social body.
  • A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
  • A chapter house
  • A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
  • A location or compartment.

Verb

  • To divide into chapters.
  • To put into a chapter.
  • To use administrative procedure to remove someone.
  • To take to task.

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Origin

  • 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; see capital, capitulum, and chapiter, which are doublets of chapter.

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