Bible Dictionaries
Chapter

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) A chapter house.

(2):

(n.) A location or compartment.

(3):

(n.) A community of canons or canonesses.

(4):

(n.) A bishop's council.

(5):

(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.

(6):

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

(7):

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

(8):

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

(9):

(n.) A decretal epistle.

(10):

(n.) A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.

(11):

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

(12):

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

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Chapter'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​c/chapter.html. 1828.