 6 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
chamber
noun
1: a natural or artificial enclosed space
2: an enclosed volume (as the aqueous chamber of the eyeball or
the chambers of the heart)
3: a room where a judge transacts business
4: a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial
assembly; "the upper chamber is the senate"
5: a room used primarily for sleeping [syn: {bedroom}, {sleeping
room}, {bedchamber}]
verb: place in a chamber
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Chamber \Cham"ber\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Chambered}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Chambering}.]
1. To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
2. To be lascivious. [Obs.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Chamber \Cham"ber\, verb (used with an object)
1. To shut up, as in a chamber. --Shak.
2. To furnish with a chamber; as, to chamber a gun.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Chamber \Cham"ber\, noun [F. chambre, fr. L. camera vault, arched
roof, in LL. chamber, fr. Gr. ? anything with a vaulted roof
or arched covering; cf. Skr. kmar to be crooked. Cf.
{Camber}, {Camera}, {Comrade}.]
1. A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a
bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.
2. pl. Apartments in a lodging house. ''A bachelor's life in
chambers.'' --Thackeray.
3. A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative
body or assembly meets; as, presence chamber; senate
chamber.
4. A legislative or judicial body; an assembly; a society or
association; as, the Chamber of Deputies; the Chamber of
Commerce.
5. A compartment or cell; an inclosed space or cavity; as,
the chamber of a canal lock; the chamber of a furnace; the
chamber of the eye.
6. pl. (Law.) A room or rooms where a lawyer transacts
business; a room or rooms where a judge transacts such
official business as may be done out of court.
7. A chamber pot. [Colloq.]
8. (Mil.)
(a) That part of the bore of a piece of ordnance which
holds the charge, esp. when of different diameter from
the rest of the bore; -- formerly, in guns, made
smaller than the bore, but now larger, esp. in
breech-loading guns.
(b) A cavity in a mine, usually of a cubical form, to
contain the powder.
(c) A short piece of ordnance or cannon, which stood on
its breech, without any carriage, formerly used
chiefly for rejoicings and theatrical cannonades.
{Air chamber}. See {Air chamber}, in the Vocabulary.
{Chamber of commerce}, a board or association to protect the
interests of commerce, chosen from among the merchants and
traders of a city.
{Chamber council}, a secret council. --Shak.
{Chamber counsel} or {Chamber counselor}, a counselor who
gives his opinion in private, or at his chambers, but does
not advocate causes in court.
{Chamber fellow}, a chamber companion; a roommate; a chum.
{Chamber hangings}, tapestry or hangings for a chamber.
{Chamber lye}, urine. --Shak.
{Chamber music}, vocal or instrumental music adapted to
performance in a chamber or small apartment or audience
room, instead of a theater, concert hall, or church.
{Chamber practice} (Law.), the practice of counselors at law,
who give their opinions in private, but do not appear in
court.
{To sit at chambers}, to do business in chambers, as a judge.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
119 Moby Thesaurus words for "chamber":
British Cabinet, Geiger counter, Sanhedrin, US Cabinet,
Wilson chamber, advisory body, alpha pulse analyzer, apartment,
assembly, association, atom counter, ballroom, bedchamber, bedpan,
bedroom, bench, board, body, body of advisers, booth,
boron counter, borough council, boudoir, box, brain trust, cabinet,
camarilla, can, cavity, cell, cellule, chamber pot, chambre,
chemical closet, chemical toilet, city council, cloud chamber,
commode, common council, compartment, conference, congress,
consortium, consultative assembly, cosmic ray counter, council,
council fire, council of ministers, council of state,
council of war, counting tube, county council, court, crapper,
crib, crypt, cubicle, cubiculum, deliberative assembly, diet,
directory, divan, dormitory, electronic counter, enclosed space,
expansion chamber, gamma ray counter, grand ballroom, haven,
heavy particle counter, hold, hole, hollow, house, ion counter,
ionization chamber, jerry, john, johnny, jordan, judicature,
judiciary, junta, kitchen cabinet, latrine, legislature, manger,
niche, nook, nursery, parish council, particle counter, pew,
piss pot, potty, potty-chair, privy council, reception room, roof,
room, rotunda, salle, shelter, shield, sleeping room, soviet,
staff, stall, stool, syndicate, synod, throne, thunder mug, toilet,
tribunal, tube counter, urinal, vault, water closet
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Chamber
"on the wall," which the Shunammite prepared for the prophet
Elisha (2 Kings 4:10), was an upper chamber over the porch
through the hall toward the street. This was the "guest chamber"
where entertainments were prepared (Mark 14:14). There were also
"chambers within chambers" (1 Kings 22:25; 2 Kings 9:2). To
enter into a chamber is used metaphorically of prayer and
communion with God (Isa. 26:20). The "chambers of the south"
(Job 9:9) are probably the constelations of the southern
hemisphere. The "chambers of imagery", i.e., chambers painted
with images, as used by Ezekiel (8:12), is an expression
denoting the vision the prophet had of the abominations
practised by the Jews in Jerusalem.
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