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

Roget 696: council, committee, subcommittee, comitia [Lat.], court, chamber, cabinet, board, bench, staff.    senate, senatus [Lat.], parliament, chamber of deputies, directory, reichsrath [G.], rigsdag, cortes [Sp.], storthing^†, witenagemote^†, junta, divan, musnud^†, sanhedrim; classis^†; Amphictyonic council^†; duma [Rus.], house of representatives; legislative assembly, legislative council; riksdag^†, volksraad [G.], witan^†, caput^†, consistory, chapter, syndicate; court of appeal etc. (tribunal) 966; board of control, board of works; vestry; county council, local board.    audience chamber, council chamber, state chamber.    cabinet council, privy council; cockpit, convocation, synod, congress, convention, diet, states-general.    [formal gathering of members of a council: script] assembly, caucus, conclave, clique, conventicle; meeting, sitting, seance, conference, convention, exhibition, session, palaver, pourparler, durbar^†, house; quorum; council fire [U.S.], powwow [U.S.], primary [U.S.].    meeting, assemblage etc. 72.    [person who is member of a council] member; senator; member of parliament, M.   P.; councilor, representative of the people; assemblyman, congressman; councilman, councilwoman, alderman, freeholder.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 593: booklet; writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule^†; tract, tractate^†; livret^†; brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion^†, circular, publication; chap book.    part, issue, number livraison [Fr.]; album, portfolio; periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal.    paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet^†; leaf, leaflet; fly leaf, page; quire, ream.    [subdivisions of a book] chapter, section, head, article, paragraph, passage, clause; endpapers, frontispiece; cover, binding.    folio, quarto, octavo; duodecimo^†, sextodecimo^†, octodecimo^†.    encyclopedia; encompilation^†.    [collection of books] library, bibliotheca^†.    press etc. (publication) 531.    [complete description] definitive work, treatise, comprehensive treatise (dissertation) 595.    [person who writes a book] writer, author, litterateur [Fr.], essayist, journalism; pen, scribbler, the scribbling race; literary hack, Grub-street writer; writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press; adjective jerker^†, diaskeaust^†, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger; publicist; reporter, penny a liner; editor, subeditor^†; playwright etc. 599; poet etc. 597.    bookseller, publisher; bibliopole^†, bibliopolist^†; librarian; bookstore, bookshop, bookseller's shop.    knowledge of books, bibliography; book learning etc. (knowledge) 490.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 51: part, portion; dose; item, particular; aught, any; division, ward; subdivision, section; chapter, clause, count, paragraph, verse; article, passage; sector, segment; fraction, fragment; cantle, frustum; detachment, parcel.    piece [Fr.], lump, bit cut, cutting; chip, chunk, collop^†, slice, scale; lamina etc. 204; small part; morsel, particle etc. (smallness) 32; installment, dividend; share etc. (allotment) 786.    debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus; excerpta^†; member, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig; runner; leaf, leaflet; stump; component part etc. 56; sarmentum^†.    compartment; department etc. (class) 75; county etc. (region) 181.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 454: subject of thought, material for thought; food for the mind, mental pabulum.    subject, subject matter; matter, theme, noemata [Gr.], topic, what it is about, thesis, text, business, affair, matter in hand, argument; motion, resolution; head, chapter; case, point; proposition, theorem; field of inquiry; moot point, problem etc. (question) 461.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 995: church, churchdom; ministry, apostleship^†, priesthood, prelacy, hierarch^†, church government, christendom, pale of the church.    clericalism, sacerdotalism^†, episcopalianism, ultramontanism^†; theocracy; ecclesiology^†, ecclesiologist^†; priestcraft^†, odium theologicum [Lat.].    monachism^†, monachy^†; monasticism, monkhood^†.    [Ecclesiastical offices and dignities] pontificate, primacy, archbishopric^†, archiepiscopacy^†; prelacy; bishopric, bishopdom^†; episcopate, episcopacy; see, diocese; deanery, stall; canonry, canonicate^†; prebend, prebendaryship^†; benefice, incumbency, glebe, advowson^†, living, cure; rectorship^†; vicariate, vicarship; deaconry^†, deaconship^†; curacy; chaplain, chaplaincy, chaplainship; cardinalate, cardinalship^†; abbacy, presbytery.    holy orders, ordination, institution, consecration, induction, reading in, preferment, translation, presentation.    popedom^†; the Vatican, the apostolic see; religious sects etc. 984.    council etc. 696; conclave, convocation, synod, consistory, chapter, vestry; sanhedrim, conge d'elire [Fr.]; ecclesiastical courts, consistorial court, court of Arches.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: caput, chapiter, hoofdstuk
Pools: kapitulum, rozdział

Any distinct period in history or in a person's life.

Pools: rozdział

A local branch of some fraternity or association.

An ecclesiastical assembly of the monks in a monastery or even of the canons of a church.

Nederlands: kapittel
Pools: kapituła

A series of related events forming an episode.