chapter
//ˈt͡ʃæptə(r)//
Forms
- Plural
- chapters
- present (v1)
- chapter
- past (v2)
- chaptered
- past participle (v3)
- chaptered
- present participle
- chaptering
- 3rd person singular
- chapters
Definitions
1.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.
- The story that unfolds through 70 chapters featuring intense tactical battles is full of plot twists and turns.
- While rubrics do not appear in paper manuscripts, eight paper manuscripts contain chapter titles, which serve the same function as the medieval rubrics.
2.Certain ecclesiastical bodies (under canon law)
3.A section of a social body.
4.A meeting of a chapter of certain organized societies or orders.
1.To use administrative procedure to remove someone.
- "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."
2.To take to task.
3.To divide into chapters.
4.To put into a chapter.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1954
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
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.