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chamber
[ cheym-ber ]
noun
- a room, usually private, in a house or apartment, especially a bedroom:
She retired to her chamber.
- a room in a palace or official residence.
- the meeting hall of a legislative or other assembly.
- chambers, Law.
- a place where a judge hears matters not requiring action in open court.
- the private office of a judge.
- (in England) the quarters or rooms that lawyers use to consult with their clients, especially in the Inns of Court.
- a legislative, judicial, or other like body:
the upper or the lower chamber of a legislature.
- an organization of individuals or companies for a specified purpose.
- the place where the moneys due a government are received and kept; a treasury or chamberlain's office.
- (in early New England) any bedroom above the ground floor, generally named for the ground-floor room beneath it.
- a compartment or enclosed space; cavity:
a chamber of the heart.
- (in a canal or the like) the space between any two gates of a lock.
- a receptacle for one or more cartridges in a firearm, or for a shell in a gun or other cannon.
- (in a gun) the part of the barrel that receives the charge.
adjective
- of, relating to, or performing chamber music:
chamber players.
verb (used with object)
- to put or enclose in, or as in, a chamber.
- to provide with a chamber.
chamber
/ ˈtʃeɪmbə /
noun
- a meeting hall, esp one used for a legislative or judicial assembly
- a reception room or audience room in an official residence, palace, etc
- archaic.a room in a private house, esp a bedroom
- a legislative, deliberative, judicial, or administrative assembly
- any of the houses of a legislature
- an enclosed space; compartment; cavity
the smallest chamber in the caves
- the space between two gates of the locks of a canal, dry dock, etc
- an enclosure for a cartridge in the cylinder of a revolver or for a shell in the breech of a cannon
- obsolete.a place where the money of a government, corporation, etc, was stored; treasury
- short for chamber pot
- the freezing room in an abattoir
- modifier of, relating to, or suitable for chamber music
a chamber concert
verb
- tr to put in or provide with a chamber
Other Words From
- under·chamber noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of chamber1
Word History and Origins
Origin of chamber1
Example Sentences
Members of the Senate, the upper chamber, are appointed and do not run for election.
Early in the speech, Texas Democrat Al Green was ejected from the House chamber for disrupting Trump's address, and Congress later voted to censure him.
They can also submit written questions and receive a response from the Government from the Commons chamber.
After the 11-term Democrat's third interjection and prior warnings to maintain decorum, House Speaker Mike Johnson ordered the sergeant-at-arms to remove Green from the chamber.
He has been fit for every one of AZ Alkmaar's matches this season and revealed the use of a cryotherapy chamber has enabled him to stay fresh and free from injury.
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