|Origin:||chapitre, from Late Latin capitulum, from Latin caput
'head'| chap‧ter S3 W1 [countable] one of the parts into which a
book is divided: Read Chapter 11 as your homework. This chapter
discusses power, and how people use it. a particular period or
event in someone's life or in history a new chapter of peace and
cooperation the noblest chapter in our history all the priests
belonging to a cathedral, or a meeting of these priests the
local members of a large organization such as a club: the local
chapter of the American Legion to give someone exact details
about where to find some information 6 British English a series
of unlucky events coming one after another