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chap·ter

chapter

 
pronunciation:
chaep tr
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part of speech: noun
definition: A chapter is a part of a book. Picture books don't have chapters, but books that tell a long story often do. Each chapter is a few pages long. Big books usually have longer chapters.
My mom is reading a book to my little sister. She reads one chapter to her every night, but sometimes my sister falls asleep before the end of the chapter.
similar words:
division, part, passage, portion, section
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