chapter

Etymology
From, from , from , diminutive of ; see , which are doublets of chapter.

Noun

 * 1)  One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.
 * 2) A section of a work, a collection of works, or fragments of works, often manuscripts or transcriptions, created by scholars or advocates, not the original authors, to aid in finding portions of the texts.
 * 3) Certain ecclesiastical bodies (under canon law)
 * 4) An assembly of monks, prebendaries and/or other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.
 * 5) A community of canons or canonesses.
 * 6) A bishop's council.
 * 7) A section of a social body.
 * 8) An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area.
 * 9) An organized branch of some society or fraternity, such as the Freemasons.
 * 10) A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
 * 11) A chapter house
 * 12) A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
 * 13) * 1866,, 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?" &para; She answered him without an instant's hesitation, steadily going on with her work. &para; "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."
 * 1)  A location or compartment.
 * 2)  A prescribed reading at one of the canonical hours.
 * 1) An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area.
 * 2) An organized branch of some society or fraternity, such as the Freemasons.
 * 3) A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
 * 4) A chapter house
 * 5) A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
 * 6) * 1866,, 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?" &para; She answered him without an instant's hesitation, steadily going on with her work. &para; "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."
 * 1)  A location or compartment.
 * 2)  A prescribed reading at one of the canonical hours.
 * 1)  A location or compartment.
 * 2)  A prescribed reading at one of the canonical hours.
 * 1)  A prescribed reading at one of the canonical hours.
 * 1)  A prescribed reading at one of the canonical hours.

Translations

 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic: ,
 * Armenian:
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܩܹܦܵܠܹܐܘܿܢ
 * Asturian: capítulu
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: бүлек
 * Basque: kapitulu
 * Belarusian: глава́,
 * Bengali:
 * Breton: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏯᏙᏢᎢ
 * Chichewa: mutu
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Coptic: ⲕⲉⲫⲁⲗⲁⲓⲟⲛ
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: ĉapitro
 * Estonian: peatükk
 * Ewe: ta
 * Finnish: ;
 * French:
 * Galician: capítulo
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κεφάλαιον
 * Greenlandic: kapitali
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingrian: glava
 * Irish: caibidil
 * Old Irish: caiptel
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: тарау
 * Khmer:, កថាភាគ,
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Lao: ບົດ
 * Latin:, capitulum
 * Latvian: nodaļa
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:, поглавје
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: kapittel
 * Old English: capitol, hēafodweard
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:, ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: caibideil
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: по̀гла̄вље, гла́ва
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: kapitola,, odsek
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: kabanata
 * Tajik: боб,
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tocharian B: sargga
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian:, ро́зділ
 * Urdu: باب, فَصْل
 * Uyghur: باب
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: (章)
 * Walloon: ,
 * Yiddish: קאַפּיטל


 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Latin: capitulum
 * Polish:
 * Spanish:


 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: cabido
 * German:, Ortsverband,
 * Hungarian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: по̀дружница, одеље́ње / одјеље́ње
 * Roman:, /
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Latin:

Verb

 * 1) To divide into chapters.
 * 2) To put into a chapter.
 * 3)  To use administrative procedure to remove someone.
 * 4)  To take to task.
 * 1)  To take to task.
 * 1)  To take to task.