Definitions for chapter

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chapter chap·ter

Spelling: [chap-ter]

IPA: /ˈtʃæp tər/

Chapter is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 302 anagrams from letters in chapter (acehprt).

Definitions for chapter

noun

1. a main division of a book, treatise, or the like, usually bearing a number or title.
2. a branch, usually restricted to a given locality, of a society, organization, fraternity, etc.:
3. an important portion or division of anything:
4. Ecclesiastical. an assembly of the monks in a monastery, of those in a province, or of the entire order. a general assembly of the canons of a church. a meeting of the elected representatives of the provinces or houses of a religious community. the body of such canons or representatives collectively.
5. any general assembly.
6. Liturgy. a short scriptural quotation read at various parts of the office, as after the last psalm in the service of lauds, prime, tierce, etc.
7. Horology. any of the marks or numerals designating the hours on a dial.
8. a section of the Bankruptcy Code that provides for the reorganization of an insolvent corporation under court supervision and can establish a schedule for the payment of debts and, in some cases, a new corporation that can continue to do business.

verb (used with object)

1. to divide into or arrange in chapters.

Origin of chapter

1175-1225; Middle English chapiter, variant of chapitre Old French Latin capitulum little head (capit-, stem of caput head + -ulum -ule); in Late Latin: section of a b

Examples for chapter

Take for instance this chapter on John Coltrane from Hentoff's wonderful book, Jazz Is.

Then he read a chapter in Plutarch about Alexander the Great.

Enforcement of U.S Code, Title VII, chapter 25A “Export Standards for Grapes and Plums” remains fully funded, thank goodness.

Clooney is clearly thinking about the chapter marked "post-heartthrob," not that he's exactly losing his looks.

The thaw between Washington and Cuba finally begins to close a chapter of the Cold War.

His first step was to restore discipline in the chapter, which had all gone to wreck.

The book in which he did so is not named in the chapter just quoted, but in Numb.

Or so the chapter titles formally name him, in a nod, perhaps, to his pained formality.

The description of Ranelagh (in the chapter on Music) is too lengthy to reproduce.

They are good words to end a chapter with—hot corn with pepper and butter on it.