chapter (noun)

a subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled

"he read a chapter every night before falling asleep"

chapter (noun)

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"

chapter (noun)

a local branch of some fraternity or association

"he joined the Atlanta chapter"

chapter (noun)

an ecclesiastical assembly of the monks in a monastery or even of the canons of a church

chapter (noun)

a series of related events forming an episode

"a chapter of disasters"

chapter (Noun)

One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.

chapter (Noun)

An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area.

chapter (Noun)

A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.

chapter (Verb)

To divide into chapters.

chapter (Verb)

To put into a chapter.

chapter (Verb)

To use administrative procedure to remove someone.

Chapter

Chapter designates certain corporate ecclesiastical bodies in the Roman Catholic, Anglican and Nordic Lutheran churches. The word is said to be derived from the chapter of the rule book: it is a custom under the Rule of Saint Benedict that monks or nuns gather daily for a meeting to discuss monastery business, hear a sermon or lecture, or receive instructions from the abbot/abbess, and as the meeting begins with a reading of a chapter from the Rule, the meeting itself acquired the name "chapter", and the place where it is held, "chapter house" or "chapter room". The term was then extended to apply to other meetings. The term general chapter designates a monastic general assembly, usually of representatives from all of the monasteries of an order or congregation. The "Chapter of Mats" is the term for a similar meeting of representatives of various provinces and subgroups of the Franciscan family of communities. A "chapter of faults" is held regularly by many religious communities at which members are both corrected for infractions against the community's rule, or accuse themselves of their faults and ask for a penance to be prescribed.