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Word entry · 7 letters

chapter

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"Subdivision of a book"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈt͡ʃæptə(r)/Part of speech nounSorted acehprtStarts with CEnds with R1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled

Word origin

From Middle English chapitre, from Old French chapitre, from Latin capitulum (“a chapter of a book, in Medieval Latin also a synod or council”), diminutive of caput (“a head”); see capital, capitulum, and chapiter, which are doublets of chapter.

Used in a sentence

  • Detective novel writers try to keep up the suspense until the last chapter.
  • The story that unfolds through 70 chapters featuring intense tactical battles is full of plot twists and turns.
  • At least thirty-two of the first forty-seven decretal chapters were received by English ecclesiastics,

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