chamber

Meaning

1. A room or set of rooms
2. The private room of an individual, especially of someone wealthy or noble.
3. A bedroom.
4. The private office of a judge.
5. The room used for deliberation by a legislature.
6. A single law office in a building housing several.
7. Rooms in a lodging house.
8. Ellipsis of chamber pot (“a container used for urination and defecation in one's chambers”).
9. The legislature or division of the legislature itself.
10. Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.
11. An enlarged space in an underground tunnel of a burrowing animal.
12. The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.
13. To enclose in a room.
14. To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
15. To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition.
16. To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber.
17. 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.
18. To be lascivious.
19. A surname.

Etymology / origin

From Middle English chambre, borrowed from Old French chambre, from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “vaulted chamber”). Doublet of camera.

Related words

Descendant words

• chambour(Cornish) (bor)
• chambro(Ido) (bor)
• Koomer(Saterland Frisian) (cog)
• Koomere(Saterland Frisian) (cog)

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