chambers

Meaning

Noun

1. (archaic, plural, plural-only) A set of rooms in a building used as an office or a residential apartment.
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. (British, 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.
4. (euphemistic, form-of, plural, plural-only) Euphemistic form of chamber pot (“a container used for defecation and urination”); also, synonym of potty (“a small (chiefly plastic) pot used by children for defecation and urination when toilet-training”).
5. (British, 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by imaginary lines connecting headlands, over which the Crown asserted exclusive jurisdiction; these have now been superseded by the concept of the territorial sea.
6. (plural, plural-only) A midmorning break at Eton College.

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of chamber

chamber

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chamber pot

A container used for urination and defecation, particularly those used in early modern towns before the advent of the flush toilet.

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Synonyms

rooms

apartment

digs

lodgings

suite

Translations

الغرف

مخادع

غرف

Kammern

raadkamer

sala de audiências

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈt͡ʃeɪmbəz/

Etymology

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