chapter
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (5)chapters
- a subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled“he read a chapter every night before falling asleep”Type of section, subdivisionPart of text, textual matter
- any distinct period in history or in a person's life“the industrial revolution opened a new chapter in British history”“the divorce was an ugly chapter in their relationship”Type of phase, stage
- a local branch of some fraternity or association“he joined the Atlanta chapter”Type of club, social clubMember of association, fraternity
- an ecclesiastical assembly of the monks in a monastery or even of the canons of a churchType of assembly
- a series of related events forming an episode“a chapter of disasters”Type of episode
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Translations
Noun section in a book
- Spanish
- capítulo
- French
- chapitre
- German
- Kapitel
- Italian
- capitolo
- Portuguese
- capítulo
- Turkish
- bölüm
- Russian
- глава́ glavá
- Arabic
- فَصْل faṣl
- Chinese
- 章 zhāng
- Japanese
- 章 shō
29 more languages
- Dutch
- hoofdstuk
- Polish
- rozdział
- Swedish
- kapitel
- Greek
- κεφάλαιο kefálaio
- Korean
- 장 jang
- Indonesian
- bab
- Vietnamese
- chương
- Hungarian
- fejezet
- Portuguese (PT)
- capítulo
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 章 zhāng
- Albanian
- kapitull
- Catalan
- capítol
- Czech
- kapitola
- Danish
- kapitel
- Esperanto
- ĉapitro
- Estonian
- peatükk
- Finnish
- luku
- Georgian
- თავი tavi
- Hebrew
- פֶּרֶק pérek
- Icelandic
- kafli
- Lithuanian
- skyrius
- Norwegian
- kapittel
- Romanian
- capitol
- Scottish Gaelic
- caibideil
- Serbo-Croatian
- poglavlje
- Slovak
- hlava
- Swahili
- sura
- Welsh
- pennod
- Yiddish
- קאַפּיטל kapitl
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: 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.
1. A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters.
2. Church (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.(b) A community of canons or canonesses.(c) A bishop's council.(d) A business meeting of any religious community.
3. An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons. William Robertson
4. A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
5. A chapter house. rare Alexander Mansfield. Burrill
6. A decretal epistle. John Ayliffe
7. A location or compartment.
In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom?— William Shakespeare
Chapter head, or Chapter heading, that which stands at the head of a chapter, as a title. — Chapter house, a house or room where a chapter meets, esp. a cathedral chapter. — The chapter of accidents, chance. Frederick Marryat
1. To divide into chapters, as a book. Thomas Fuller
2. To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse. obsolete John Dryden
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54