What does "chambers" mean?
A set of rooms in a building used as an office or a residential apartment.
Chambers
/ˈt͡ʃeɪmbəz/ name, noun, verb
name, noun, verb ·Moderate ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A set of rooms in a building used as an office or a residential apartment.
- Grammar: chambers is listed as name, noun, verb.
- Nearest alternatives: apartment, assembly, booking office, box office.
- Useful contrasts: eject, expose, exterior.
- Usage evidence: Attorneys, both of you, see me in my chambers right now.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A set of rooms in a building used as an office or a residential apartment. archaic, plural, plural-only
"Thanks, my lord, for your veniſon, for finer or fatter / Never rang'd in a foreſt, or ſmoak'd in a platter; / […] / I had thoughts, in my chambers, to place it in view, / To be ſhevvn to my friends as a piece of virtu; […]"
- 2 plural of chamber form-of, plural
- 3 Chiefly in in chambers: a judge's private office which is used for hearings that do not need to be held in open court. broadly, plural, plural-only
- 4 Originally, a set of rooms at an Inn of Court used by one or more barristers as an office and residence; now, the office of one or more barristers in any building. British, broadly, plural, plural-only
"[B]e you mannerly to her, becauſe you are to pretend only to be her Squire, to arm her to her Lavvyers Chambers; but I vvill be impudent and baudy, for ſhe muſt love and marry me."
- 5 Euphemistic form of chamber pot (“a container used for defecation and urination”); also, synonym of potty (“a small (chiefly plastic) pot used by children for defecation and urination when toilet-training”). euphemistic, form-of, plural, plural-only
"[W]heres the chamber gone Ive a holy horror of its breaking under me after that old commode […]"
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- 6 In full king's chambers: parts of the sea next to the coast of England and Wales delimited by imaginary lines connecting headlands, over which the Crown asserted exclusive jurisdiction; these have now been superseded by the concept of the territorial sea. British, historical, plural, plural-only
"[W]e cannot be ſecure, vvhile ſuch huge Fleets of Men of VVar, both Spaniſh, French, Dutch, and Dunkirkeers, ſome of them laden vvith Ammunition, Men, Arms, and Armies, do daily ſail on our Seas, and confront the Kings Chambers; […]"
- 7 A midmorning break at Eton College. plural, plural-only
"Drury presented himself at Chambers before 11 o'clock school one day with a conspicuous black eye."
Verb
- 1 third-person singular simple present indicative of chamber form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname. countable, uncountable
- 2 A township in Temagami municipality, Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada. countable, uncountable
- 3 An unincorporated community in Apache County, Arizona. countable, uncountable
- 4 A township and village therein, in Holt County, Nebraska. countable, uncountable
- 5 An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia. countable, uncountable
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- 6 Ellipsis of Chambers County. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
Synonyms
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Example
"Attorneys, both of you, see me in my chambers right now."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "chambers"?
Common synonyms include: apartment, assembly, booking office, box office, branch, branch office.
How do you use "chambers" in a sentence?
Attorneys, both of you, see me in my chambers right now.
How do you pronounce "chambers"?
Pronounced /ˈt͡ʃeɪmbəz/.
Etymology
From chamber + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum and regular plurals of nouns, and the third-person singular simple present indicative forms of verbs).