chapter
English
Alternative forms
- chaptre (obsolete)
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English chapiter, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French chapitre, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin capitulum (“a chapter of a book, in (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin also a synod or council”), diminutive of caput (“a head”); see chapiter and capital, which are doublets of chapter.
Pronunciation
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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.
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- 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.
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- A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
- A chapter house.
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- 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."
- 1911, Bram Stoker, chapter 26, in The Lair of the White Worm:
- […] she determined to go on slowly towards Castra Regis, and trust to the chapter of accidents to pick up the trail again.
- 1866, Wilkie Collins, Armadale, Book the Last, Chapter I,
- A decretal epistle.
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- (obsolete) A location or compartment.
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- In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom?
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Derived terms
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Related terms
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Translations
section in a book
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an administrative division of an organization
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See also
Further reading
- “chapter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “chapter”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Verb
chapter (third-person singular simple present chapters, present participle chaptering, simple past and past participle chaptered)
- To divide into chapters.
- To put into a chapter.
- (military, with "out") To use administrative procedure to remove someone.
- 2001, John Palmer Hawkins, Army of Hope, Army of Alienation: Culture and Contradiction in the American Army Communities of Cold War Germany[1], page 117:
- If you're a single parent [soldier] and you can't find someone to take care of your children, they will chapter you out [administrative elimination from the service]. And yet if you use someone not certified, they get mad.
- 2006, Thomas R. Schombert, Diaries of a Soldier: Nightmares from Within[2], page 100:
- "He also wanted me to give you a message. He said that if you don't get your shit ready for this deployment, then he will chapter you out of his freakin' army."
- (transitive) To take to task.
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