"chapter" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈt͡ʃæptə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈt͡ʃæptɚ/ [US] Audio: en-us-chapter.ogg [US] Forms: chapters [plural]
Rhymes: -æptə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle English chapiter, 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. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|chapiter}} Middle English chapiter, {{der|en|fro|chapitre}} Old French chapitre, {{der|en|la|capitulum||a chapter of a book, in Medieval Latin also a synod or council}} Latin capitulum (“a chapter of a book, in Medieval Latin also a synod or council”), {{m|la|caput||a head}} caput (“a head”), {{doublet|en|capital|capitulum|chapiter|notext=1}} capital, capitulum, and chapiter Head templates: {{en-noun}} chapter (plural chapters)
  1. (authorship) One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided. Categories (topical): Textual division
    Sense id: en-chapter-en-noun-Z7lrqzG9 Disambiguation of Textual division: 19 19 8 6 5 5 7 6 1 1 1 4 2 1 4 11 Topics: authorship, broadcasting, communications, film, journalism, literature, media, publishing, television, writing
  2. (authorship) One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.
    A section of a work, a collection of works, or fragments of works, often manuscripts or transcriptions, created by scholars or advocates, not the original authors, to aid in finding portions of the texts.
    Categories (topical): Textual division
    Sense id: en-chapter-en-noun-Imv1ynjP Disambiguation of Textual division: 19 19 8 6 5 5 7 6 1 1 1 4 2 1 4 11 Topics: authorship, broadcasting, communications, film, journalism, literature, media, publishing, television, writing
  3. Certain ecclesiastical bodies (under canon law)
    An assembly of monks, prebendaries and/or other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.
    Categories (topical): Collectives
    Sense id: en-chapter-en-noun-6AyALmNB Disambiguation of Collectives: 3 5 14 13 13 9 14 5 2 1 1 5 1 0 6 7 Categories (other): Assyrian Neo-Aramaic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Assyrian Neo-Aramaic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations: 8 9 15 6 6 4 7 5 2 2 3 8 1 1 6 17 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 8 10 14 11 10 9 14 9 1 2 4 10
  4. Certain ecclesiastical bodies (under canon law)
    A community of canons or canonesses.
    Categories (topical): Collectives
    Sense id: en-chapter-en-noun-bp-tAM9a Disambiguation of Collectives: 3 5 14 13 13 9 14 5 2 1 1 5 1 0 6 7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 8 10 14 11 10 9 14 9 1 2 4 10
  5. Certain ecclesiastical bodies (under canon law)
    A bishop's council.
    Categories (topical): Collectives
    Sense id: en-chapter-en-noun-DCeSrpzA Disambiguation of Collectives: 3 5 14 13 13 9 14 5 2 1 1 5 1 0 6 7
  6. A section of a social body.
    An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area.
    Translations (a division of an organization): divisió [feminine] (Catalan), 支部 (zhībù) (Chinese Mandarin), osasto (Finnish), branche [feminine] (French), section [feminine] (French), cabido [masculine] (Galician), Verband [masculine] (German), Ortsverband [masculine] (German), Sektion [feminine] (German), káptalan (Hungarian), dział [masculine] (Polish), filia [feminine] (Polish), divisão [feminine] (Portuguese), capítulo [masculine] (Portuguese), филиа́л (filiál) [masculine] (Russian), отделе́ние (otdelénije) [neuter] (Russian), по̀дружница [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), одеље́ње [Cyrillic, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), одјеље́ње [Cyrillic, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), pòdružnica [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), odeljénje [Roman, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), odjeljénje [Roman, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), sede [feminine] (Spanish), capítulo [masculine] (Spanish), sección [feminine] (Spanish), sura (Swahili), avdelning [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-chapter-en-noun-M005bCOM Disambiguation of 'a division of an organization': 1 2 4 2 2 73 9 1 2 1 2 2
  7. A section of a social body.
    An organized branch of some society or fraternity, such as the Freemasons.
    Categories (topical): Collectives
    Sense id: en-chapter-en-noun-u6gqE3Sw Disambiguation of Collectives: 3 5 14 13 13 9 14 5 2 1 1 5 1 0 6 7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 8 10 14 11 10 9 14 9 1 2 4 10
  8. A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
    Sense id: en-chapter-en-noun-AytT6Tm7
  9. A chapter house
    Sense id: en-chapter-en-noun-QMeZ~88J
  10. A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
    Sense id: en-chapter-en-noun--BUieEUe
  11. (obsolete) A location or compartment. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-chapter-en-noun-bUjpcOKY
  12. (Roman Catholicism) A prescribed reading at one of the canonical hours. Categories (topical): Roman Catholicism Synonyms: capitule
    Sense id: en-chapter-en-noun-6sNhTrG- Topics: Catholicism, Christianity, Roman-Catholicism
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: ch., chpt. [abbreviation], chapiter, chapitre, chapiture, chaptre, chapyter, chapytre [obsolete] Derived forms: chapter and verse, chapter book, chapter house, chapter of accidents, chapter out, dean and chapter, go Chapter 11, to the end of the chapter Related terms: chapiter, capital, capitalism, captain, capitulate, capitulation, per capita, overarching, rubric, marginalia Translations (ecclesiastical body): kapittel [neuter] (Dutch), chapitre [masculine] (French), Kapitel [neuter] (German), capitulum [neuter] (Latin), kapituła [feminine] (Polish), capítulo [masculine] (Spanish) Translations (section in a book): kapitull [masculine] (Albanian), krye [masculine] (Albanian), κεφάλαιον (kephálaion) [neuter] (Ancient Greek), فَصْل (faṣl) [masculine] (Arabic), بَاب (bāb) [masculine] (Arabic), գլուխ (glux) (Armenian), ܩܹܦܵܠܹܐܘܿܢ (qepaleʾon) [masculine] (Assyrian Neo-Aramaic), capítulu [masculine] (Asturian), fəsil (Azerbaijani), бүлек (bülek) (Bashkir), kapitulu (Basque), глава́ (hlavá) [feminine] (Belarusian), раздзе́л (razdzjél) [masculine] (Belarusian), অধ্যায় (oddhaẏ) (Bengali), chabistr (Breton), pennad (Breton), глава́ (glavá) [feminine] (Bulgarian), အခန်း (a.hkan:) (Burmese), ခန်း (hkan:) (Burmese), capítol [masculine] (Catalan), ᎠᏯᏙᏢᎢ (ayadotlvi) (Cherokee), mutu (Chichewa), (zoeng¹) (Chinese Cantonese), (zhāng) (Chinese Mandarin), ⲕⲉⲫⲁⲗⲁⲓⲟⲛ (kephalaion) (Coptic), kapitola [feminine] (Czech), hlava [feminine] (Czech), kapitel [neuter] (Danish), hoofdstuk [neuter] (Dutch), kapittel [neuter] (Dutch), ĉapitro (Esperanto), peatükk (Estonian), ta (Ewe), luku (note: in a book) (Finnish), pykälä (note: in a legal statute) (Finnish), chapitre [masculine] (French), capítulo [masculine] (Galician), თავი (tavi) (Georgian), Kapitel [neuter] (German), Abschnitt [masculine] (German), κεφάλαιο (kefálaio) [neuter] (Greek), kapitali (Greenlandic), פֶּרֶק (pérek) [masculine] (Hebrew), अध्याय (adhyāy) [masculine] (Hindi), fejezet (Hungarian), kafli [masculine] (Icelandic), chapitro (Ido), bab (Indonesian), bagian (Indonesian), glava (Ingrian), فَصْل (fasl) (Iranian Persian), فَرْگَرْد (fargard) (Iranian Persian), باب (bâb) (Iranian Persian), caibidil [feminine] (Irish), capitolo [masculine] (Italian), (shō) (alt: しょう) (Japanese), тарау (tarau) (Kazakh), កណ្ឌ (kan) (Khmer), កថាភាគ (kaʼthaa phiək) (Khmer), ចំពូក (cɑmpuuk) (Khmer), (jang) (alt: ) (Korean), тароо (taroo) (Kyrgyz), глава (glava) (Kyrgyz), ບົດ (bot) (Lao), caput [neuter] (Latin), capitulum [Late, neuter] (Latin), nodaļa [feminine] (Latvian), skyrius [masculine] (Lithuanian), глава (glava) [feminine] (Macedonian), поглавје (poglavje) [neuter] (Macedonian), bab (Malay), അദ്ധ്യായം (addhyāyaṁ) (Malayalam), бүлэг (büleg) [Cyrillic] (Mongolian), kapittel [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), kapittel [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), capitol [masculine] (Old English), hēafodweard [feminine] (Old English), caiptel (Old Irish), rozdział [masculine] (Polish), capítulo [masculine] (Portuguese), capitol [neuter] (Romanian), глава́ (glavá) [feminine] (Russian), разде́л (razdél) [masculine] (Russian), अध्याय (adhyāya) [masculine] (Sanskrit), काण्ड (kāṇḍa) [masculine] (Sanskrit), caibideil [feminine, masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), по̀гла̄вље [Cyrillic, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), гла́ва [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), pòglāvlje [Roman, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), gláva [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), kapitola [feminine] (Slovak), hlava [feminine] (Slovak), odsek [masculine] (Slovak), poglavje [neuter] (Slovene), capítulo [masculine] (Spanish), sura (Swahili), kapitel [neuter] (Swedish), kabanata (Tagalog), боб (bob) (Tajik), фасл (fasl) (Tajik), ప్రకరణము (prakaraṇamu) (Telugu), บท (bòt) (Thai), sargga (Tocharian B), bölüm (Turkish), bap (Turkmen), глава́ (hlavá) [feminine] (Ukrainian), ро́зділ (rózdil) [masculine] (Ukrainian), باب (bāb) [masculine] (Urdu), فَصْل (fasl) [masculine] (Urdu), باب (bab) (Uyghur), bob (Uzbek), fasl (Uzbek), chương (alt: ) (Vietnamese), tchaptrê [masculine] (Walloon), tchapite [masculine] (Walloon), קאַפּיטל (kapitl) [masculine, neuter] (Yiddish)
Disambiguation of 'ecclesiastical body': 1 2 27 27 27 6 6 2 0 0 0 2 Disambiguation of 'section in a book': 34 34 0 0 0 16 16 0 0 0 0 0

Verb

IPA: /ˈt͡ʃæptə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈt͡ʃæptɚ/ [US] Audio: en-us-chapter.ogg [US] Forms: chapters [present, singular, third-person], chaptering [participle, present], chaptered [participle, past], chaptered [past]
Rhymes: -æptə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle English chapiter, 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. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|chapiter}} Middle English chapiter, {{der|en|fro|chapitre}} Old French chapitre, {{der|en|la|capitulum||a chapter of a book, in Medieval Latin also a synod or council}} Latin capitulum (“a chapter of a book, in Medieval Latin also a synod or council”), {{m|la|caput||a head}} caput (“a head”), {{doublet|en|capital|capitulum|chapiter|notext=1}} capital, capitulum, and chapiter Head templates: {{en-verb}} chapter (third-person singular simple present chapters, present participle chaptering, simple past and past participle chaptered)
  1. To divide into chapters.
    Sense id: en-chapter-en-verb-hGT~imFD
  2. To put into a chapter.
    Sense id: en-chapter-en-verb-ZbV4rcbn
  3. (military, with "out") To use administrative procedure to remove someone. Tags: with "out" Categories (topical): Military
    Sense id: en-chapter-en-verb-gy39nghL Topics: government, military, politics, war
  4. (transitive) To take to task. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Textual division
    Sense id: en-chapter-en-verb-HpRmj7mt Disambiguation of Textual division: 19 19 8 6 5 5 7 6 1 1 1 4 2 1 4 11 Categories (other): Assyrian Neo-Aramaic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations Disambiguation of Assyrian Neo-Aramaic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations: 8 9 15 6 6 4 7 5 2 2 3 8 1 1 6 17
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: chapiter, chapitre, chapiture, chaptre, chapyter, chapytre [obsolete]

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "CHAPTER - One of the principal divisions of a book, and, in reference to the Bible, one of the larger sections into which its books are divided. This division, as well as that consisting of verses, was introduced to facilitate reference, and not to indicate any natural or accurate division of the subjects treated in the books.",
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          "ref": "1963, Charles Duggan, Twelfth-century Decretal Collections and Their Importance in English History, page 127",
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          "ref": "2018, David J. Hunt, A Textual History of Cicero's Academici Libri, page 152",
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          "ref": "2021, David T. Orique, The Unheard Voice of Law in Bartolomé de Las Casas’s Brevísima Relación de la Destruición de las Indias, page 97",
          "text": "From canon law, he cited Gratian's Decretum, Gregory's Decretales, the Sexto and Clementines Decretales, and the Extravagantes, and specifically referred to “the rules for understanding the Law” in a decretal chapter on Propterea.",
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      "sense": "section in a book",
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      "sense": "section in a book",
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      "sense": "section in a book",
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    {
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      "sense": "section in a book",
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      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
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    {
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      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
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    {
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      "lang": "Greenlandic",
      "sense": "section in a book",
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      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
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    {
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      "lang": "Hindi",
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      "sense": "section in a book",
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    {
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      "sense": "section in a book",
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    {
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      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
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    {
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      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "chapitro"
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    {
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      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "bab"
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      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "bagian"
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      "word": "glava"
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    {
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      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
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    {
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      "code": "sga",
      "lang": "Old Irish",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "caiptel"
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    {
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
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    },
    {
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      "code": "ja",
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      "roman": "shō",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "章"
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    {
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      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
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      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "тарау"
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    {
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      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "កណ្ឌ"
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    {
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      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "កថាភាគ"
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    {
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      "lang": "Khmer",
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      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "ចំពូក"
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    {
      "_dis1": "34 34 0 0 0 16 16 0 0 0 0 0",
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      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "jang",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "장"
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    {
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      "word": "тароо"
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    {
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      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "ບົດ"
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    {
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      "code": "la",
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      "sense": "section in a book",
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    {
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    {
      "_dis1": "34 34 0 0 0 16 16 0 0 0 0 0",
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
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      ],
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    {
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      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
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    {
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      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "glava",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
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      ],
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    {
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      "lang": "Macedonian",
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      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "поглавје"
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    {
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      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "bab"
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    {
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      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "addhyāyaṁ",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "അദ്ധ്യായം"
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    {
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      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "büleg",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "бүлэг"
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    {
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      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
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      ],
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    {
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      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
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      ],
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    {
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      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "capitol"
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    {
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      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
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      ],
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    {
      "_dis1": "34 34 0 0 0 16 16 0 0 0 0 0",
      "code": "fa-ira",
      "lang": "Iranian Persian",
      "roman": "fasl",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "فَصْل"
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    {
      "_dis1": "34 34 0 0 0 16 16 0 0 0 0 0",
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      "lang": "Iranian Persian",
      "roman": "fargard",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "فَرْگَرْد"
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    {
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      "lang": "Iranian Persian",
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      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "باب"
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    {
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
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      ],
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    {
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
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      ],
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      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
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      ],
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      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
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      ],
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    {
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      "lang": "Russian",
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      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
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    {
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      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
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      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "अध्याय"
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    {
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      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "काण्ड"
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    {
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      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
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        "masculine"
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      "word": "caibideil"
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    {
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "section in a book",
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    {
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      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "гла́ва"
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    {
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      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
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    },
    {
      "_dis1": "34 34 0 0 0 16 16 0 0 0 0 0",
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      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "gláva"
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    {
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      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
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      ],
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    {
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      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
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    {
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      "sense": "section in a book",
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      "sense": "section in a book",
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      "tags": [
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      ],
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      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "sura"
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    {
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      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "kapitel"
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    {
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      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "kabanata"
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    {
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      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "боб"
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    {
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      "word": "фасл"
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    {
      "_dis1": "34 34 0 0 0 16 16 0 0 0 0 0",
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      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "prakaraṇamu",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "ప్రకరణము"
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    {
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      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "bòt",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "บท"
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      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "sargga"
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      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "bölüm"
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      "word": "bap"
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      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "hlavá",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "глава́"
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    {
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      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "rózdil",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "ро́зділ"
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    {
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      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "bāb",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "باب"
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    {
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      "roman": "fasl",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "فَصْل"
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    {
      "_dis1": "34 34 0 0 0 16 16 0 0 0 0 0",
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      "lang": "Uyghur",
      "roman": "bab",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "باب"
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    {
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      "word": "bob"
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    {
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      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "chương"
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      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
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    {
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      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "kapitl",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
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        "neuter"
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      "word": "קאַפּיטל"
    },
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      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "ecclesiastical body",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "kapittel"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "1 2 27 27 27 6 6 2 0 0 0 2",
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "ecclesiastical body",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "chapitre"
    },
    {
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "ecclesiastical body",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "Kapitel"
    },
    {
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      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "ecclesiastical body",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "capitulum"
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    {
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      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "ecclesiastical body",
      "tags": [
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    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "kapitulu"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "hlavá",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "глава́"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "razdzjél",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "раздзе́л"
    },
    {
      "code": "bn",
      "lang": "Bengali",
      "roman": "oddhaẏ",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "অধ্যায়"
    },
    {
      "code": "br",
      "lang": "Breton",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "chabistr"
    },
    {
      "code": "br",
      "lang": "Breton",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "pennad"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "glavá",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "глава́"
    },
    {
      "code": "my",
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "roman": "a.hkan:",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "အခန်း"
    },
    {
      "code": "my",
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "roman": "hkan:",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "ခန်း"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "capítol"
    },
    {
      "code": "chr",
      "lang": "Cherokee",
      "roman": "ayadotlvi",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "ᎠᏯᏙᏢᎢ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ny",
      "lang": "Chichewa",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "mutu"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "zoeng¹",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "章"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhāng",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "章"
    },
    {
      "code": "cop",
      "lang": "Coptic",
      "roman": "kephalaion",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "ⲕⲉⲫⲁⲗⲁⲓⲟⲛ"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kapitola"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "hlava"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "kapitel"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "hoofdstuk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "kapittel"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "ĉapitro"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "peatükk"
    },
    {
      "code": "ee",
      "lang": "Ewe",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "ta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "note": "in a book",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "luku"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "note": "in a legal statute",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "pykälä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "chapitre"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "capítulo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "tavi",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "თავი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Kapitel"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Abschnitt"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "kefálaio",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "κεφάλαιο"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "kephálaion",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "κεφάλαιον"
    },
    {
      "code": "kl",
      "lang": "Greenlandic",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "kapitali"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "pérek",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "פֶּרֶק"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "adhyāy",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "अध्याय"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "fejezet"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kafli"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "chapitro"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "bab"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "bagian"
    },
    {
      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "glava"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "caibidil"
    },
    {
      "code": "sga",
      "lang": "Old Irish",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "caiptel"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "capitolo"
    },
    {
      "alt": "しょう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shō",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "章"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "tarau",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "тарау"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "kan",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "កណ្ឌ"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "kaʼthaa phiək",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "កថាភាគ"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "cɑmpuuk",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "ចំពូក"
    },
    {
      "alt": "章",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "jang",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "장"
    },
    {
      "code": "ky",
      "lang": "Kyrgyz",
      "roman": "taroo",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "тароо"
    },
    {
      "code": "ky",
      "lang": "Kyrgyz",
      "roman": "glava",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "глава"
    },
    {
      "code": "lo",
      "lang": "Lao",
      "roman": "bot",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "ບົດ"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "caput"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "Late",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "capitulum"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nodaļa"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "skyrius"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "glava",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "глава"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "poglavje",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "поглавје"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "bab"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "addhyāyaṁ",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "അദ്ധ്യായം"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "büleg",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "бүлэг"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "kapittel"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "kapittel"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "capitol"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "hēafodweard"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa-ira",
      "lang": "Iranian Persian",
      "roman": "fasl",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "فَصْل"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa-ira",
      "lang": "Iranian Persian",
      "roman": "fargard",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "فَرْگَرْد"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa-ira",
      "lang": "Iranian Persian",
      "roman": "bâb",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "باب"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rozdział"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "capítulo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "capitol"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "glavá",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "глава́"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "razdél",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "разде́л"
    },
    {
      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
      "roman": "adhyāya",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "अध्याय"
    },
    {
      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
      "roman": "kāṇḍa",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "काण्ड"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "caibideil"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "по̀гла̄вље"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "гла́ва"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "pòglāvlje"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gláva"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kapitola"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "hlava"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "odsek"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "poglavje"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "capítulo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "sura"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "kapitel"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "kabanata"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "bob",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "боб"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "fasl",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "фасл"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "prakaraṇamu",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "ప్రకరణము"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "bòt",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "บท"
    },
    {
      "code": "txb",
      "lang": "Tocharian B",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "sargga"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "bölüm"
    },
    {
      "code": "tk",
      "lang": "Turkmen",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "bap"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "hlavá",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "глава́"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "rózdil",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ро́зділ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "bāb",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "باب"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "fasl",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "فَصْل"
    },
    {
      "code": "ug",
      "lang": "Uyghur",
      "roman": "bab",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "باب"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "bob"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "fasl"
    },
    {
      "alt": "章",
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "word": "chương"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tchaptrê"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tchapite"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "kapitl",
      "sense": "section in a book",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "קאַפּיטל"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "ecclesiastical body",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "kapittel"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "ecclesiastical body",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "chapitre"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "ecclesiastical body",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Kapitel"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "ecclesiastical body",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "capitulum"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "ecclesiastical body",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kapituła"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "ecclesiastical body",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "capítulo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "a division of an organization",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "divisió"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhībù",
      "sense": "a division of an organization",
      "word": "支部"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a division of an organization",
      "word": "osasto"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a division of an organization",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "branche"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a division of an organization",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "section"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "a division of an organization",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cabido"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a division of an organization",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Verband"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a division of an organization",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Ortsverband"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a division of an organization",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Sektion"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a division of an organization",
      "word": "káptalan"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a division of an organization",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dział"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a division of an organization",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "filia"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a division of an organization",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "divisão"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a division of an organization",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "capítulo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "filiál",
      "sense": "a division of an organization",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "филиа́л"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "otdelénije",
      "sense": "a division of an organization",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "отделе́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "a division of an organization",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "по̀дружница"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "a division of an organization",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "одеље́ње"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "a division of an organization",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "одјеље́ње"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "a division of an organization",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pòdružnica"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "a division of an organization",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "odeljénje"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "a division of an organization",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "odjeljénje"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a division of an organization",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sede"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a division of an organization",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "capítulo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a division of an organization",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sección"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "a division of an organization",
      "word": "sura"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a division of an organization",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "avdelning"
    }
  ],
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    "chapter"
  ],
  "word": "chapter"
}

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    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
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    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
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    "Requests for review of Latin translations",
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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "fro",
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      },
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        "4": "",
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      "form": "chapters",
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        "present",
        "singular",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chaptering",
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        "present"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "To divide into chapters."
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To put into a chapter."
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Military"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, John Palmer Hawkins, Army of Hope, Army of Alienation: Culture and Contradiction in the American Army Communities of Cold War Germany, page 117",
          "text": "If you're a single parent [soldier] and you can't find someone to take care of your children, they will chapter you out [administrative elimination from the service]. And yet if you use someone not certified, they get mad.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Thomas R. Schombert, Diaries of a Soldier: Nightmares from Within, page 100",
          "text": "\"He also wanted me to give you a message. He said that if you don't get your shit ready for this deployment, then he will chapter you out of his freakin' army.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To use administrative procedure to remove someone."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(military, with \"out\") To use administrative procedure to remove someone."
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      "tags": [
        "with \"out\""
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        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
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    {
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      "glosses": [
        "To take to task."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
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          "take to task"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To take to task."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ]
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃæptə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃæptɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æptə(ɹ)"
    },
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      "audio": "en-us-chapter.ogg",
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/En-us-chapter.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
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    {
      "word": "chapiter"
    },
    {
      "word": "chapitre"
    },
    {
      "word": "chapiture"
    },
    {
      "word": "chaptre"
    },
    {
      "word": "chapyter"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
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    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "chapter"
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}

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