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chaptered

chaptered is the simple past and past participle of chapter.

Meaning of chapter

Verb

chapter (third-person singular simple present chapters, present participle chaptering, simple past and past participle chaptered)

  1. To divide into chapters.
  2. To put into a chapter.
  3. To use administrative procedure to remove someone.
    • 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.2001, John Palmer Hawkins, Army of Hope, Army of Alienation: Culture and Contradiction in the American Army Communities of Cold War Germany, page 117
  4. (transitive) To take to task.

See all 16 meanings of chapter

Adjective

chaptered (not comparable)

  1. Having chapters of a specified number or kind.
    • Not many people in France bought the little five-chaptered book, but a number of copies were sold in Germany.1964, Dorothy Shipley White, Seeds of Discord: De Gaulle, Free France, and the Allies, page 27

Words formed from chaptered

Phrases with chaptered

Questions about chaptered

What does chaptered mean?
Chaptered means having chapters of a specified number or kind.
What is chaptered the simple past and past participle of?
Chaptered is the simple past and past participle of chapter.
What part of speech is chaptered?
Chaptered is an adjective.

Words near chaptered in the dictionary

  1. chapter houses
  2. chapter of accidents
  3. chapter out
  4. chapter-house
  5. chapter-houses
  6. chaptered
  7. chaptered out
  8. chapterful
  9. chapterfuls
  10. chapterhouse
  11. chapterhouses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chaptered (page history and authors); chapter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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