chamber
Syllables: cham·berUK/ˈt͡ʃeɪ̯mbə//ˈt͡ʃeɪ̯mbɚ/
chamber noun: the private room of an individual, especially of someone wealthy or noble. Also the ellipsis of chamber pot.
Noun
chamber (plural chambers)
- The private room of an individual, especially of someone wealthy or noble.
- 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.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
- A bedroom.
- The private office of a judge.
- The room used for deliberation by a legislature.
- A single law office in a building housing several.
- Rooms in a lodging house.
- 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...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...
- The legislature or division of the legislature itself.
- The resolution, which speedily passed the Senate, was unable to gain a majority in the lower chamber.
- Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.
- A canal lock chamber; a furnace chamber; a test chamber
- An enlarged space in an underground tunnel of a burrowing animal.
- The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.
- Dianne loaded a cartridge into the chamber of the rifle, then prepared to take aim at the target.
- One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver.
- A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades.
- One of the two atria or two ventricles of the heart.
Verb
chamber (third-person singular simple present chambers, present participle chambering, simple past and past participle chambered)
- To enclose in a room.
- She had chambered herself in her room, and wouldn't come out.
- To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
- I chambered with Alexander Preston.1893, Publications of the Scottish History Society, volume 14, page 64
- To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition.
- The hunter fired at the geese and missed, then shrugged his shoulders and chambered another cartridge.
- To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber.
- The rifle was originally chambered for 9mm, but had since been modified for a larger, wildcat caliber.
- 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.
- Bob chambered his fist for a blow, but Sheila struck first.
- To be lascivious.
- Synonyms:
- blissom
Proper noun capitalized: Chamber
Chamber (plural Chambers)
- A surname.
Also used as
chamber is also the ellipsis of chamber pot.
chamber meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Kannada
chamber in Hindi
- room or set of rooms
- कक्ष kakṣ
- legislative body
- सदन sadan, मंडल maṇḍal
- bedroom
- शयनकक्ष śayankakṣ
- enclosed space similar to a room
- कक्ष kakṣ
chamber in Tamil
- room or set of rooms
- அறை aṟai
- individual's private room
- அறை aṟai
- bedroom
- படுக்கையறை paṭukkaiyaṟai, அறை aṟai
- rooms in a lodging house
- அறை aṟai
chamber in Urdu
- bedroom
- خْوَاب گاہ xvāb gāh, آرام گاہ ārām gāh, شَبِسْتان śabistān
chamber in Kannada
- ಚೇಂಬರ್
More languagesFewer languages
- chamber in Punjabi
- ਚੈਂਬਰ
- chamber in Gujarati
- ચેમ્બર
- chamber in Arabic
- غُرْفَة ḡurfa, حُجْرَة ḥujra, مَجْلِس majlis, غُرْفَةُ نَوْم ḡurfatu nawm
- chamber in Malay
- dewan
- chamber in Indonesian
- dewan
Examples of chamber in a sentence
- After the process, the machine purges the chamber before venting it to remove toxic gases.
- A round archway at the far end of the hallway provided communication to the main chamber.
- The locktender closed the tailgate and the chamber started to fill.
Synonyms of chamber
Forms of chamber
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | chambers |
| alternative form (obsolete) | chambre |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | chambers |
| present participle | chambering |
| past participle | chambered |
| past | chambered |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Chambers |
Origin of chamber
From Middle English chambre, borrowed from Old French chambre, from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “vaulted chamber”). Doublet of camera.
Words formed from chamber
- 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
- chamber utensil
- 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
Phrases with chamber
- red chamber
- ante chamber
- chamber pots
- pulp chamber
- rain chamber
- sole chamber
- star chamber
- wire chamber
- chamber gates
- chamber lamps
- chamber plays
- chamber tombs
27 more phrasesFewer phrases
- lower chamber
- magma chamber
- upper chamber
- chamber horses
- chamber organs
- Gilded Chamber
- lethal chamber
- living chamber
- plenum chamber
- Ussing chamber
- vacuum chamber
- Wilson chamber
- torture chamber
- widow's chamber
- presence chamber
- chamber composers
- chamber ensembles
- posterior chamber
- chamber orchestras
- resonating chamber
- chamber candlesticks
- lead chamber process
- Torricellian chamber
- yeoman of the chamber
- yeomen of the chamber
- lead chamber processes
- time projection chamber
Words that rhyme with chamber
Questions about chamber
- What does chamber mean?
- Chamber means the private room of an individual, especially of someone wealthy or noble.
- What is chamber in Hindi?
- Chamber in Hindi is कक्ष (kakṣ), सदन (sadan), मंडल (maṇḍal). See Chamber meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is chamber?
- Chamber can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce chamber?
- Chamber is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃeɪ̯mbə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of chamber?
- The plural of chamber is chambers.
Words near chamber in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: chamber (page history and authors); Chamber (page history and authors); chamber (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); chamber (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); chamber (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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