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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.
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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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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chamber cham·ber (chām'bər)
n.
A compartment or enclosed space.
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