Definition of Chapter

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Chapter

A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters.

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.

A community of canons or canonesses.

A bishop's council.

A business meeting of any religious community.

An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons.

A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.

A chapter house.

A decretal epistle.

A location or compartment.

To divide into chapters, as a book.

To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse.

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Chapter Quotations

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
Lyndon B. Johnson

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."
Ludwig Wittgenstein

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
John Donne

The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.
Jim Harrison

When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.
Irvine Welsh

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.
Arthur Conan Doyle

This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history.
John Barth

Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.
Sidney Sheldon

We kinda look at this as the second or third chapter of our lives. After college, most people figure out what they want to do with their lives. But we already know what we want to do in the future and that is to continue to further our business goals.
Mary-Kate Olsen

Chapter Translations

chapter in Danish is kapitel
chapter in Dutch is hoofdstuk, chapiter, kapittel
chapter in French is chapitre
chapter in German is Abschnitt {m}, Teil
chapter in Italian is capitolo, settore
chapter in Latin is capitulus
chapter in Norwegian is kapitel
chapter in Swedish is kapitel

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