chamber
Americannoun
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a room, usually private, in a house or apartment, especially a bedroom.
She retired to her chamber.
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a room in a palace or official residence.
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the meeting hall of a legislative or other assembly.
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Law. chambers,
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a place where a judge hears matters not requiring action in open court.
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the private office of a judge.
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(in England) the quarters or rooms that lawyers use to consult with their clients, especially in the Inns of Court.
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a legislative, judicial, or other like body.
the upper or the lower chamber of a legislature.
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an organization of individuals or companies for a specified purpose.
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the place where the moneys due a government are received and kept; a treasury or chamberlain's office.
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(in early New England) any bedroom above the ground floor, generally named for the ground-floor room beneath it.
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a compartment or enclosed space; cavity.
a chamber of the heart.
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(in a canal or the like) the space between any two gates of a lock.
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a receptacle for one or more cartridges in a firearm, or for a shell in a gun or other cannon.
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(in a gun) the part of the barrel that receives the charge.
adjective
verb (used with object)
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to put or enclose in, or as in, a chamber.
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to provide with a chamber.
noun
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a meeting hall, esp one used for a legislative or judicial assembly
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a reception room or audience room in an official residence, palace, etc
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archaic a room in a private house, esp a bedroom
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a legislative, deliberative, judicial, or administrative assembly
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any of the houses of a legislature
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an enclosed space; compartment; cavity
the smallest chamber in the caves
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the space between two gates of the locks of a canal, dry dock, etc
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an enclosure for a cartridge in the cylinder of a revolver or for a shell in the breech of a cannon
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obsolete a place where the money of a government, corporation, etc, was stored; treasury
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short for chamber pot
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the freezing room in an abattoir
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(modifier) of, relating to, or suitable for chamber music
a chamber concert
verb
Other Word Forms
- underchamber noun
Etymology
Origin of chamber
1175–1225; Middle English chambre < Old French < Latin camera, variant of camara vaulted room, vault < Greek kamára
Example Sentences
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At the start of the meeting on Friday, board members did not even enter the public chamber before continuing to discuss their immediate plans behind closed doors.
From Los Angeles Times
But it was their latest event, hosted inside the chamber where the Church of England had only the week before held its national assembly, General Synod, which caused the biggest stir.
From BBC
If you can’t, leave before you are reduced to a soulless husk of the eager, happy person who walked into that chamber a decade ago.
"I was trying to get into every expat network in Buenos Aires - the private French schools, the French Embassy staff, the French chamber of commerce," Flament remembers.
From BBC
"Suddenly bills became tight and businesses were laying off staff really rapidly," says Warner, who is also president of the local chamber of commerce.
From BBC
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