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chapter - a local branch of some fraternity or association; "he joined the Atlanta chapter" |
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gild,
guild,
social club,
society,
lodge,
club,
order an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization
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frat,
fraternity a social club for male undergraduates
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association the act of consorting with or joining with others; "you cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association"
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chapter - a subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled; "he read a chapter every night before falling asleep" |
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subdivision,
section the act of subdividing; division of something previously divided
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textual matter,
text the words of something written; "there were more than a thousand words of text"; "they handed out the printed text of the mayor's speech"; "he wants to reconstruct the original text"
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chapter - a series of related events forming an episode; "a chapter of disasters" |
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episode a brief section of a literary or dramatic work that forms part of a connected series
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chapter - an ecclesiastical assembly of the monks in a monastery or even of the canons of a church |
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assembly the social act of assembling; "they demanded the right of assembly"
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chapter - any distinct period in history or in a person's life; "the industrial revolution opened a new chapter in British history"; "the divorce was an ugly chapter in their relationship" |
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phase,
stage (astronomy) the particular appearance of a body's state of illumination (especially one of the recurring shapes of the part of Earth's moon that is illuminated by the sun); "the full phase of the moon"
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