CHAPTER: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for CHAPTER?

Need another word that means the same as “chapter”? Find 33 synonyms and 30 related words for “chapter” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Chapter” are: section, division, part, portion, segment, component, bit, period, time, phase, page, stage, episode, epoch, era, governing body, council, assembly, convocation, convention, synod, consistory, branch, subdivision, department, bureau, agency, lodge, wing, arm, offshoot, subsidiary, satellite

Chapter as a Noun

Definitions of "Chapter" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “chapter” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• A series of related events forming an episode.
• A local group of Hell's Angels.
• A subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled.
• A distinctive period in history or in a person's life.
• Any distinct period in history or in a person's life.
• A section of a treaty.
• An ecclesiastical assembly of the monks in a monastery or even of the canons of a church.
• A local branch of some fraternity or association.
• The governing body of a religious community or knightly order.
• A series or sequence.
• An Act of Parliament numbered as part of a session's proceedings.
• A main division of a book, typically with a number or title.
• A local branch of a society.

Synonyms of "Chapter" as a noun (33 Words)

agency	Thing or person that acts to produce a particular effect or achieve an end. The agency of providence.
arm	A side part of a chair or other seat on which a sitter can rest their arm. As they walked he offered her his arm.
assembly	A group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose. He was told off for talking in assembly.
bit	The cutting part of a drill usually pointed and threaded and is replaceable in a brace or bitstock or drill press. Can you move over a bit.
branch	A part of a forked or branching shape. He went to work at our Birmingham branch.
bureau	Furniture with drawers for keeping clothes. The intelligence bureau.
component	Each of two or more forces, velocities, or other vectors acting in different directions which are together equivalent to a given vector. Jealousy was a component of his character.
consistory	(in other Churches) a local administrative body.
convention	Orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional. He was an upholder of convention and correct form.
convocation	The action of calling people together for a large formal assembly. The arguments delayed the convocation of the first congress planned for February 1992.
council	Denoting housing provided by a local council at a subsidized rent. A council flat.
department	A division of a large organization such as a government, university, or business, dealing with a specific area of activity. You ll find it in the hardware department.
division	Biology a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category. The new clause was agreed without a division.
episode	Film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie. The whole episode has been a major embarrassment.
epoch	A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event. The Victorian epoch.
era	Baseball a measure of a pitcher s effectiveness calculated as the average number of earned runs allowed by the pitcher for every nine innings pitched. His death marked the end of an era.
governing body	The act of governing; exercising authority.
lodge	A large house or hotel. A hunting lodge.
offshoot	A thing that develops from something else. Commercial offshoots of universities.
page	A page of a newspaper or magazine set aside for a particular topic. He was turning the pages of his Sunday newspaper.
part	The melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music. He took the part of Prospero.
period	The interval between successive equal values of a periodic function. The period 1977 85.
phase	A distinct state of matter in a system matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary. Phase two of the development.
portion	An individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal. His portion was larger than hers.
satellite	Satellite television. Satellite broadcasting.
section	A relatively distinct part of a book, newspaper, statute, or other document. The finance section of the company.
segment	A part of a figure cut off by a line or plane intersecting it. Orange segments.
stage	The theater as a profession usually the stage. A series resistance between the headphones and the output stage.
subdivision	Any taxonomic subcategory, especially (in botany) one that ranks below division and above class. The Birkenhead police subdivision.
subsidiary	A company controlled by a holding company. The firm s Spanish subsidiary.
synod	A Presbyterian ecclesiastical court above the presbyteries and subject to the General Assembly. The deanery synod.
time	A point of time as measured in hours and minutes past midnight or noon. Do you know what time it is.
wing	The wing of a fowl. Michael earned his wings as a commercial pilot.

Usage Examples of "Chapter" as a noun

• The industrial revolution opened a new chapter in British history.
• A leaflet was issued by the local chapter of the American Cancer Society.
• A majority voted for the inclusion of the social chapter in the treaty.
• A chapter of disasters.
• We will deal with this in chapter eleven.
• Land granted by the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral.
• He read a chapter every night before falling asleep.
• The people are about to begin a new chapter in their history.
• He joined the Atlanta chapter.
• The divorce was an ugly chapter in their relationship.
• The latest episode in a chapter of problems.

Associations of "Chapter" (30 Words)

antiphon	A musical setting of an antiphon.
assonant	Having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables. Note the assonant words and syllables in tilting at windmills.
book	A bookmaker s record of bets accepted and money paid out. Women s books like Cosmopolitan and Ladies Home Journal.
couplet	A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed.
denouement	The final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work. The film s denouement was unsatisfying and ambiguous.
doggerel	Comic verse composed in irregular rhythm. Doggerel verses.
fiction	Literature in the form of prose that describes imaginary events and people. They were supposed to be keeping up the fiction that they were happily married.
filing	Preservation and methodical arrangement as of documents and papers etc. Iron filings.
introductory	Serving as a base or starting point. Began the slide show with some introductory remarks.
literature	The humanistic study of a body of literature. The literature on environmental epidemiology.
missive	A letter, especially a long or official one. Yet another missive from the Foreign Office.
narrator	A person who delivers a commentary accompanying a film, broadcast, piece of music, etc. A religious broadcast with Johnny Morris as narrator.
new	Beginning anew and in a transformed way. Looking for new business.
novel	The literary genre represented or exemplified by novels. The novels of Jane Austen.
ode	A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
phrase	Divide combine or mark into phrases. They phrased the music with gusto.
poem	A piece of writing in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by particular attention to diction (sometimes involving rhyme), rhythm, and imagery. Lyric poems.
poesy	The art or composition of poetry. The genius of poesy.
poetry	Any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling. He is chiefly famous for his love poetry.
prologue	The actor who delivers the prologue in a play. I got third in the prologue and eighth on the hardest stage.
prose	Compose in or convert into prose. A short story in prose.
quatrain	A stanza of four lines.
reenact	Enact again. Congress reenacted the law.
reorganization	An extensive alteration of the structure of a corporation or government. A committee was appointed to oversee the reorganization of the curriculum.
rhyme	Compose rhymes. Poetic features such as rhythm rhyme and alliteration.
sentence	Pronounce a sentence on somebody in a court of law. He always spoke in grammatical sentences.
sonnet	Praise in a sonnet. He sonneted his hostess now.
stanza	A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem.
verse	Compose verses or put into verse. We were each required to recite a Bible verse from memory.
writer	A clerk, especially in the navy or in government offices. A CD writer.