Dictionary Entry
chapter
chapter is a 7-letter English word with 17 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 15 · 17 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
A community of canons or canonesses.
- 4noun
A bishop's council.
- 5noun
A business meeting of any religious community.
- 6noun
An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons.
- 7noun
A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
- 8noun
A chapter house.
- 9noun
A decretal epistle.
- 10noun
A location or compartment.
- 11transitive verb
To divide into chapters, as a book.
- 12transitive verb
To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse.
- 13noun
a subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled
"he read a chapter every night before falling asleep"
- 14noun
a series of related events forming an episode
"a chapter of disasters"
- 15noun
a local branch of some fraternity or association
"he joined the Atlanta chapter"
- 16noun
an ecclesiastical assembly of the monks in a monastery or even of the canons of a church
- 17noun
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"
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