chamber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃeɪmbə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃeɪmbɚ/
rhymes: -eɪmbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: chambers
form: chambre
Etymology: From Middle English chambre, borrowed from Old French chambre, from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “vaulted chamber”). Doublet of camera.
Senses: examples: text: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, / Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, / While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, / As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
ref: 1845 February, — Quarles [pseudonym; Edgar Allan Poe], “The Raven”, in The American Review, volume I, number II, New York, N.Y.; London: Wiley & Putnam, […], →OCLC, page 143:
glosses: A room or set of rooms
The private room of an individual, especially of someone wealthy or noble.
glosses: A room or set of rooms
A bedroom.
glosses: A room or set of rooms
The private office of a judge.
glosses: A room or set of rooms
The room used for deliberation by a legislature.
glosses: A room or set of rooms
A single law office in a building housing several.
examples: text: A committee of marriageable ladies, or of any Christian persons interested in the propagation of the domestic virtues, should employ a Cruikshank or a Leech, or some other kindly expositor of the follies of the day, to make a series of designs representing the horrors of a bachelor's life in chambers, and leading the beholder to think of better things, and a more wholesome condition.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Which Had Very Nearly Been the Last of the Story”, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume II, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 120:
glosses: A room or set of rooms
Rooms in a lodging house.
examples: text: "Jesus Christ! Was my folks refined. My mam she wouldn't think-a lettin' us young'uns call a pee pot a pee pot. A chamber's what she called it... And by God! Us young'uns had ter call the pee pot a chamber or git our God damn necks wrang."
ref: 1946, Elizabeth Metzger Howard, Before the Sun Goes Down, page 31:
glosses: Ellipsis of chamber pot (“a container used for urination and defecation in one's chambers”).
examples: text: The resolution, which speedily passed the Senate, was unable to gain a majority in the lower chamber.
glosses: The legislature or division of the legislature itself.
examples: text: A canal lock chamber; a furnace chamber; a test chamber
glosses: Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An enlarged space in an underground tunnel of a burrowing animal.
examples: text: Dianne loaded a cartridge into the chamber of the rifle, then prepared to take aim at the target.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver.
glosses: A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades.
glosses: One of the two atria or two ventricles of the heart.
Synonyms: sense: chamber pot
word: chamber pot
Derived terms: air chamber
antechamber
anterior chamber
barochamber
bedchamber
biochamber
black chamber
blue chamber
bridal chamber
bridechamber
brood chamber
bubble chamber
burial chamber
chamber candlestick
chamber composer
chamber ensemble
chamberesque
chamber foreign
chamberful
chamber gate
chamber horse
chamberlain
chamber lamp
chamberlet
chamberlike
chamber lye
chambermaid
chambermate
chamber music
chamber of commerce
chamber of horrors
chamber opera
chamber orchestra
chamber organ
chamber play
chamber pop
chamber pot
chamberstick
chamber tomb
chamberware
chamberwoman
chamber-work
climate chamber
cloud chamber
combustion chamber
cryochamber
death chamber
decompression chamber
dumb chamber
echo chamber
enchamber
gas chamber
guestchamber
hemichamber
horror chamber
hyperbaric chamber
hyperbaric oxygen chamber
in chambers
interchamber
intrachamber
lead chamber process
lethal chamber
living chamber
lockchamber
lower chamber
macrochamber
magma chamber
microchamber
multichamber
outchamber
phytochamber
plenum chamber
posterior chamber
prechamber
presence chamber
pulp chamber
rain chamber
rechamber
red chamber
resonating chamber
sole chamber
star chamber
subchamber
time projection chamber
Torricellian chamber
torture chamber
unchamber
underchamber
upper chamber
Ussing chamber
widow's chamber
Wilson chamber
wire chamber
yeoman of the chamber