chambers
Meaning
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- A set of rooms in a building used as an office or a residential apartment.
- Chiefly in in chambers: a judge's private office which is used for hearings that do not need to be held in open court.
- 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.
- 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”).
- 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by imaginary lines connecting headlands, over which the Crown asserted exclusive jurisdiction; these have now been superseded by the concept of the territorial sea.
Frequency
Hyphenated as
cham‧bers
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).
New
chamber
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- A room or set of rooms
- A room or set of rooms
- A room or set of rooms
- A room or set of rooms
- A room or set of rooms
- A room or set of rooms
- (obsolete) Ellipsis of chamber pot: a container used for urination and defecation in one's chambers.
- The legislature or division of the legislature itself.
- Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.
- An enlarged space in an underground tunnel of a burrowing animal.
- The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.
- 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.
New
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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