chapter

chapter has 17 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• 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.