In literature, chapter means: One of the main numbered or titled parts into which a book, especially a novel, is divided.
In Turkish: bölüm
How it is used
Used by readers, book clubs and teachers: read the first three chapters, the opening chapter, the final chapter. Essays refer to passages by chapter (in Chapter 4). Figuratively, a 'new chapter' is a new period in someone's life.
Example sentences
For Thursday, please read chapters five to eight.
The final chapter jumps forward twenty years.
Common collocations
opening chapter
final chapter
read a chapter
chapter one
short chapters
Related terms
novelA long story written in prose that describes imaginary people and events, usually long enough to fill a whole book and to develop characters in detail.
plotThe series of connected events in a story and the way the writer arranges them, especially how one event causes another.
cliffhangerAn ending of a chapter, episode or book that leaves the story at an exciting, unresolved moment so that readers want to know what happens next.
flashbackA scene that interrupts the main story to show events that happened earlier, often to explain a character's past or motives.
