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CHAPTER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled
Example:
he read a chapter every night before falling asleep
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("chapter" is a kind of...):
section; subdivision (a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical))
Holonyms ("chapter" is a part of...):
text; textual matter (the words of something written)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A series of related events forming an episode
Example:
a chapter of disasters
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("chapter" is a kind of...):
episode (a happening that is distinctive in a series of related events)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A local branch of some fraternity or association
Example:
he joined the Atlanta chapter
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("chapter" is a kind of...):
club; gild; guild; lodge; order; social club; society (a formal association of people with similar interests)
Holonyms ("chapter" is a member of...):
association (a formal organization of people or groups of people)
frat; fraternity (a social club for male undergraduates)
Sense 4
Meaning:
An ecclesiastical assembly of the monks in a monastery or even of the canons of a church
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("chapter" is a kind of...):
assembly (a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Any distinct period in history or in a person's life
Example:
the divorce was an ugly chapter in their relationship
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("chapter" is a kind of...):
phase; stage (any distinct time period in a sequence of events)
Context examples:
Fanny's explanations and remarks were a most important addition to every essay, or every chapter of history.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
And Lady Stanley. Did you ever read the wonderful last chapter of that book about her husband?
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
For the first time, scientists began seeing clearly a chapter in the story of how the inner planets, including Earth, acquired water and some of the chemical building blocks for life.
(NASA Spacecraft Achieves Unprecedented Success Studying Mercury, NASA)
And as for me—the poor string upon which these beads are strung—I dare scarce say another word about myself, lest this, which I had meant to be the last word of a chapter, should grow into the first words of a new one.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This brief account of the family is intended to supersede the necessity of a long and minute detail from Mrs. Thorpe herself, of her past adventures and sufferings, which might otherwise be expected to occupy the three or four following chapters; in which the worthlessness of lords and attorneys might be set forth, and conversations, which had passed twenty years before, be minutely repeated.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
During the course of these troubles, the emperors of Blefusca did frequently expostulate by their ambassadors, accusing us of making a schism in religion, by offending against a fundamental doctrine of our great prophet Lustrog, in the fifty-fourth chapter of the Blundecral (which is their Alcoran).
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
You want to be organized and then confidently close the chapter on 2019.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Father and Mother sat together, quietly reliving the first chapter of the romance which for them began some twenty years ago.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Betsey would have contrived to throw that after the rest, and make another chapter, I have little doubt.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He tried to read a chapter in Fiske, but his brain was restless and he closed the book.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
