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chambers

Syllables: cham·bers/ˈt͡ʃeɪmbəz//ˈt͡ʃeɪmbɚz/

chambers noun: a set of rooms in a building used as an office or a residential apartment. Also the euphemistic form of chamber pot.

chambers: a set of rooms in a building used as an office or a residential apartment
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Noun

chambers pl (plural only)

  1. (archaic, plural, plural-only) A set of rooms in a building used as an office or a residential apartment.
    • Thanks, my lord, for your veniſon, for finer or fatter / Never rang'd in a foreſt, or ſmoak'd in a platter; / […] / I had thoughts, in my chambers, to place it in view, / To be ſhevvn to my friends as a piece of virtu; […]1765, Oliver Goldsmith, “The Haunch of Venison, a Poetical Epistle to Lord Clare”, in [Thomas Evans], editor, The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B. […], volume I, London: […]...
    • I am sure he loses pleasanter companions than he can find in his own thoughts, either in his mouldy old office, or his dusty chambers. I mean to give him the same chance every year, whether he likes it or not, for I pity him.1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Three. The Second of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. […], London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 109
  2. (broadly, plural, plural-only) Chiefly in in chambers: a judge's private office which is used for hearings that do not need to be held in open court.
  3. (UK, broadly, plural, plural-only) Originally, a set of rooms at an Inn of Court used by one or more barristers as an office and residence; now, the office of one or more barristers in any building.
    • [B]e you mannerly to her, becauſe you are to pretend only to be her Squire, to arm her to her Lavvyers Chambers; but I vvill be impudent and baudy, for ſhe muſt love and marry me.1676 December 11 (first performance), [William] Wycherley, The Plain-Dealer. A Comedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for James Magnes and Rich[ard] Bentley […], published 1677, →OCLC, Act II...
    • […] I dismissed my coach at the gate, and tripped it down to my counsel's chambers; for lawyer's fees take up too much of a small disputed jointure to admit any other expenses but mere necessaries.1712 June 30 (Gregorian calendar), [Thomas Tickell], “THURSDAY, June 20, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 410; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V...
  4. (UK, historical, plural, plural-only) In full king's chambers: parts of the sea next to the coast of England and Wales delimited by imaginary lines connecting headlands, over which the Crown asserted exclusive jurisdiction; these have now been superseded by the concept of the territorial sea.
    • [W]e cannot be ſecure, vvhile ſuch huge Fleets of Men of VVar, both Spaniſh, French, Dutch, and Dunkirkeers, ſome of them laden vvith Ammunition, Men, Arms, and Armies, do daily ſail on our Seas, and confront the Kings Chambers; […]1633 February 8 (Gregorian calendar), James Howell, “XI. To Sir Arthur Ingram, at York.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume I, London: […] Humphrey...
    • The exclusive territorial jurisdiction of the British Crown over the enclosed parts of the sea along the coasts of the island of Great Britain, has immemorially extended to those bays called the King's Chambers; i.e. portions of the sea cut off by lines drawn from one promontory to another.1845, William Whewell, “International Rights of Property”, in The Elements of Morality, including Polity […], volume II, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], →OCLC, book VI (International Jus. Rights...
  5. (plural, plural-only) A midmorning break at Eton College.
    • Drury presented himself at Chambers before 11 o'clock school one day with a conspicuous black eye.1889, Sir H. C. Maxwell Lyte, A History of Eton College, 1440-1884, page 372

Proper noun capitalized: Chambers

Chambers (countable and uncountable, plural Chamberses)

  1. A surname.
  2. A township in Temagami municipality, Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada.
  3. An unincorporated community in Apache County, Arizona.
  4. A township and village therein, in Holt County, Nebraska.
  5. An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia.
  6. (abbreviation, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Chambers County.

Also used as

chambers is also the euphemistic form of chamber pot.

chambers is also the plural of chamber.

chambers is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of chamber.

chambers meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Telugu and Punjabi

chambers in Urdu

چیمبرز, چیمبرس

chambers in Bengali

চেম্বারগুলি

chambers in Telugu

ఛాంబర్స్

chambers in Punjabi

ਚੈਂਬਰਾਂ, ਚੈਂਬਰਸ

Examples of chambers in a sentence

  • He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company...
  • [A]s a rule the chambers were occupied only by Stack, who had been Wilfrid's batman in the war, and had for him one of those sphinx-like habits which wear better than expressed devotions.1932, John Galsworthy, chapter III, in Flowering Wilderness […], London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, page 19:
  • He alone takes a meeting with Cersei [Lannister], in her chambers, with the Mountain [Gregor Clegane] ready and waiting to dispatch him.2017 August 27, Brandon Nowalk, “Game of Thrones Slows Down for the Longest, and Best, Episode of the Season (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club...
  • Considerable areas of sea were thus enclosed within the Chambers, particularly on the west coast.1974, Christopher Lloyd, editor, The Mariner’s Mirror: The Journal of the Society for Nautical Research, volume 60, London: Society for...

Forms of chambers

pluralChamberses

Origin of chambers

From chamber + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum and regular plurals of nouns, and the third-person singular simple present indicative forms of verbs).

Words formed from chambers

Phrases with chambers

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Questions about chambers

What does chambers mean?
Chambers means a set of rooms in a building used as an office or a residential apartment.
What is chambers in Urdu?
Chambers in Urdu is چیمبرز, چیمبرس. See Chambers meaning in Urdu.
How do you use chambers in a sentence?
He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company.
What part of speech is chambers?
Chambers can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce chambers?
Chambers is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃeɪmbəz/ (UK).

Words near chambers in the dictionary

  1. chambermaids
  2. chambermate
  3. chambermates
  4. chamberpot
  5. chamberpots
  6. chambers
  7. Chambers County
  8. chambers of commerce
  9. chambers of horrors
  10. Chambersburg
  11. Chamberses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: chambers (page history and authors); Chambers (page history and authors); chambers (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); chambers (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); chambers (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); chambers (Punjabi, 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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