Chapter

n. one of the main divisions of a book or other literary work; phase, stage, period; local branch of an organization; assembly of church leaders

Chapter may refer to:Chapter (books), a main divisions of a piece of writingAn organisational division, such as a chapter of the Audobon Society or of a fraternity.Chapter (religion), an assembly of members in a religious orderChapter may also refer to:Chapter Arts Centre, a cultural centre in Cardiff, WalesChapter Music, a record labelChapters, a Canadian bookstore chainChapter house, a building attached to a cathedral or collegiate church
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Noun
1. a subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled; "he read a chapter every night before falling asleep"
(hypernym) section, subdivision
(part-holonym) text, textual matter
2. 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"
(hypernym) phase, stage
3. a local branch of some fraternity or association; "he joined the Atlanta chapter"
(hypernym) club, society, guild, gild, lodge, order
(member-holonym) fraternity, frat
4. an ecclesiastical assembly of the monks in a monastery or even of the canons of a church
(hypernym) assembly
5. a series of related events forming an episode; "a chapter of disasters"
(hypernym) episode

(v. t.)
To divide into chapters, as a book.
  

(v. t.)
To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse.
  

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

(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 meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
  

(n.)
A location or compartment.
  

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

(n.)
A decretal epistle.
  

(n.)
A community of canons or canonesses.
  

(n.)
A chapter house.
  

(n.)
A business meeting of any religious community.
  

(n.)
A bishop's council.
  

The several books of the Old and New Testaments were from an early time divided into chapters. The Pentateuch was divided by the ancient Hebrews into 54 parshioth or sections, one of which was read in the synagogue every Sabbath day (Acts. 13:15). These sections were afterwards divided into 669 sidrim or orders of unequal length. The Prophets were divided in somewhat the same manner into haphtaroth or passages. In the early Latin and Greek versions of the Bible, similar divisions of the several books were made. The New Testament books were also divided into portions of various lengths under different names, such as titles and heads or chapters. In modern times this ancient example was imitated, and many attempts of the kind were made before the existing division into chapters was fixed. The Latin Bible published by Cardinal Hugo of St. Cher in A.D. 1240 is generally regarded as the first Bible that was divided into our present chapters, although it appears that some of the chapters were fixed as early as A.D. 1059. This division into chapters came gradually to be adopted in the published editions of the Hebrew, with some few variations, and of the Greek Scriptures, and hence of other versions.