What does "chamber" mean?
A room or set of rooms; The private room of an individual, especially of someone wealthy or noble.
Chamber
/ˈtʃeɪmbə(ɹ)/ name, noun, verb
name, noun, verb ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A room or set of rooms; The private room of an individual, especially of someone wealthy or noble.
- Grammar: chamber is listed as name, noun, verb.
- Nearest alternatives: advisory body, alpha pulse analyzer, apartment, assembly.
- Useful contrasts: eject, exterior, external space.
- Usage evidence: "My lady is in her chamber," said the servant.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A room or set of rooms; The private room of an individual, especially of someone wealthy or noble.
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, / Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, / While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, / As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door."
- 2 a room used primarily for sleeping wordnet
- 3 A room or set of rooms; A bedroom.
- 4 a natural or artificial enclosed space wordnet
- 5 A room or set of rooms; The private office of a judge.
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- 6 a room where a judge transacts business wordnet
- 7 A room or set of rooms; The room used for deliberation by a legislature.
- 8 an enclosed volume in the body wordnet
- 9 A room or set of rooms; A single law office in a building housing several. UK
- 10 a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly wordnet
- 11 A room or set of rooms; Rooms in a lodging house. dated, plural-normally
"A committee of marriageable ladies, or of any Christian persons interested in the propagation of the domestic virtues, should employ a Cruikshank or a Leech, or some other kindly expositor of the follies of the day, to make a series of designs representing the horrors of a bachelor's life in chambers, and leading the beholder to think of better things, and a more wholesome condition."
- 12 Ellipsis of chamber pot (“a container used for urination and defecation in one's chambers”). abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, obsolete
""Jesus Christ! Was my folks refined. My mam she wouldn't think-a lettin' us young'uns call a pee pot a pee pot. A chamber's what she called it... And by God! Us young'uns had ter call the pee pot a chamber or git our God damn necks wrang.""
- 13 The legislature or division of the legislature itself. figuratively
"The resolution, which speedily passed the Senate, was unable to gain a majority in the lower chamber."
- 14 Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.
"A canal lock chamber; a furnace chamber; a test chamber"
- 15 An enlarged space in an underground tunnel of a burrowing animal.
- 16 The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.
"Dianne loaded a cartridge into the chamber of the rifle, then prepared to take aim at the target."
- 17 One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver.
- 18 A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades. historical
- 19 One of the two atria or two ventricles of the heart.
Verb
- 1 To enclose in a room. transitive
"She had chambered herself in her room, and wouldn't come out."
- 2 place in a chamber wordnet
- 3 To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
"I chambered with Alexander Preston."
- 4 To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition. transitive
"The hunter fired at the geese and missed, then shrugged his shoulders and chambered another cartridge."
- 5 To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber. transitive
"The rifle was originally chambered for 9mm, but had since been modified for a larger, wildcat caliber."
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- 6 To prepare an offensive, defensive, or counteroffensive action by drawing a limb or weapon to a position where it may be charged with kinetic energy. transitive
"Bob chambered his fist for a blow, but Sheila struck first."
- 7 To be lascivious. obsolete
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
""My lady is in her chamber," said the servant."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "chamber"?
Common synonyms include: advisory body, alpha pulse analyzer, apartment, assembly, assembly, association.
How do you use "chamber" in a sentence?
"My lady is in her chamber," said the servant.
How do you pronounce "chamber"?
Pronounced /ˈtʃeɪmbə(ɹ)/.
Etymology
From Middle English chambre, borrowed from Old French chambre, from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “vaulted chamber”). Doublet of camera.