Definition of chapter

• 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.