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chapter definition and meaning

n. A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters.
n. 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.
n. A community of canons or canonesses.
n. A bishop's council.
n. A business meeting of any religious community.
n. An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons.
n. A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
n. A chapter house.
n. A decretal epistle.
n. A location or compartment.
v. t. To divide into chapters, as a book.
v. t. To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse.

Crossword clues for chapter

- Book division
- Cher apt to be in part of book
- Episode
- Masonic division broke her pact
- Part of book
- Period of time
- Section of a book
- Segment of prose book
- Writers block