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noun
1.
a room, usually private, in a house or apartment, especially a bedroom: She retired to her chamber.
2.
a room in a palace or official residence.
3.
the meeting hall of a legislative or other assembly.
4.
chambers, Law.
a.
a place where a judge hears matters not requiring action in open court.
b.
the private office of a judge.
c.
(in England) the quarters or rooms that lawyers use to consult with their clients, especially in the Inns of Court.
5.
EXPANDa legislative, judicial, or other like body: the upper or the lower chamber of a legislature.
6.
an organization of individuals or companies for a specified purpose.
7.
the place where the moneys due a government are received and kept; a treasury or chamberlain's office.
8.
(in early New England) any bedroom above the ground floor, generally named for the ground-floor room beneath it.
9.
a compartment or enclosed space; cavity: a chamber of the heart.
10.
(in a canal or the like) the space between any two gates of a lock.
11.
a receptacle for one or more cartridges in a firearm, or for a shell in a gun or other cannon.
12.
(in a gun) the part of the barrel that receives the charge.
13.
COLLAPSEadjective
14.
of, pertaining to, or performing chamber music: chamber players.
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Chamber
is always a great word to know.
So is plaintiff. Does it mean:
| a release from the penalty of an offense; a remission of penalty, as by a governor; the document by which such remission is declared |
| a person who brings suit in a court against a defendant |
verb (used with object)
15.
to put or enclose in, or as in, a chamber.
16.
to provide with a chamber.
Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English chambre < Old French < Latin camera, variant of camara vaulted room, vault < Greek kamára
1175–1225; Middle English chambre < Old French < Latin camera, variant of camara vaulted room, vault < Greek kamára
Related forms
un·der·cham·ber, noun
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Example Sentences
- The jolts continue in the legislative chamber one floor below, where the upholstery is of seal skin.
- And so a small crowd gathered in an elegant back room chamber at the museum.
- EU business has always been more about the horse-trading of the committee room than about the rhetoric of the debating chamber.
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World English Dictionary
| chamber (ˈtʃeɪmbə) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a meeting hall, esp one used for a legislative or judicial assembly |
| 2. | a reception room or audience room in an official residence, palace, etc |
| 3. | archaic, poetic or a room in a private house, esp a bedroom |
| 4. | a. a legislative, deliberative, judicial, or administrative assembly |
| b. any of the houses of a legislature | |
| 5. | an enclosed space; compartment; cavity: the smallest chamber in the caves |
| 6. | the space between two gates of the locks of a canal, dry dock, etc |
| 7. | an enclosure for a cartridge in the cylinder of a revolver or for a shell in the breech of a cannon |
| 8. | obsolete a place where the money of a government, corporation, etc, was stored; treasury |
| 9. | short for chamber pot |
| 10. | (NZ) the freezing room in an abattoir |
| 11. | (modifier) of, relating to, or suitable for chamber music: a chamber concert |
| —vb | |
| 12. | (tr) to put in or provide with a chamber |
| [C13: from Old French chambre, from Late Latin camera room, Latin: vault, from Greek kamara] | |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
chamber
early 13c., from O.Fr. chambre, from L.L. camera "a chamber, room" (see camera). Chamber-pot is from 1560s; chambermaid is from 1580s.
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
chamber cham·ber (chām'bər)
n.
A compartment or enclosed space.
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Easton
Bible Dictionary
Chamber definition
"on the wall," which the Shunammite prepared for the prophet Elisha (2 Kings 4:10), was an upper chamber over the porch through the hall toward the street. This was the "guest chamber" where entertainments were prepared (Mark 14:14). There were also "chambers within chambers" (1 Kings 22:25; 2 Kings 9:2). To enter into a chamber is used metaphorically of prayer and communion with God (Isa. 26:20). The "chambers of the south" (Job 9:9) are probably the constelations of the southern hemisphere. The "chambers of imagery", i.e., chambers painted with images, as used by Ezekiel (8:12), is an expression denoting the vision the prophet had of the abominations practised by the Jews in Jerusalem.
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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