chamber

Noun

1. A room or set of rooms
2. A room or set of rooms
3. A room or set of rooms
4. A room or set of rooms
5. (UK) A room or set of rooms
6. (dated, plural-normally) A room or set of rooms
7. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, obsolete) Ellipsis of chamber pot (“a container used for urination and defecation in one's chambers”).
8. (figuratively) The legislature or division of the legislature itself.
9. Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.
10. An enlarged space in an underground tunnel of a burrowing animal.
11. The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.
12. One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver.
13. (historical) A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades.
14. One of the two atria or two ventricles of the heart.

Verb

1. (transitive) To enclose in a room.
2. To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
3. (transitive) To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition.
4. (transitive) To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber.
5. (transitive) 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.
6. (obsolete) To be lascivious.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtʃeɪmbə(ɹ)/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: chambre

In summary

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

Synonyms

room

bedroom

house

🏠

apartment

bedchamber

cell

compartment

sleeping room

office

🏢

hall

bureau

cubicle

sleeping accommodation

floor

closet

accommodation

board

bower

magazine

cabin

barrel

pavilion

cavern

cavity

bore out

mansion

parliament

parlour

pot

potty

prison

ream

repository

roof

set of rooms

sitting room

small room

territory

tower

urinal

ventricle

wanton

ward

audience chamber

gun barrel

master bedroom

presence chamber

Jewish religious school

meeting room

underground hiding place

Translations

chambre

camera

kamer

cámara

salle

Kammer

câmara

θάλαμος

quarto

4th

pièce

cambra

Schlafzimmer

chambre à coucher

izba

Zimmer

Sentences

There is convection in the magma chamber .