Meaning of chamber | Babel Free

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1. A surname.
2. A room or set of rooms
3. The private room of an individual, especially of someone wealthy or noble.
4. room
5. a female servant or hotel worker in charge of bedrooms. kamerbediende, kamermeisie خادِمَه في فُنْدُق камериерка criada de quarto pokojská, služebná das Stubenmädchen stuepige καμαριέραcamarera, doncella toateenija خدمتکار زن kamarineito femme de chambre חַדרָנִית दासी sobarica szobalány pelayan þjónustustúlka cameriera 部屋係の女性 (호텔 등의) 객실담당 여종업원 kambarinė apkopēja; istabene pengemas bilik kamermeisjestuepikepokojówka نرس criada de quarto cameristă горничная chyžná sobarica sobarica städerska, ...
6. A bedroom.
7. camera
8. music for a small group of players, suitable for a room rather than a large hall. kamermusiek موسيقى تَعْزِفُها فِرْقَةٌ صَغيرَه камерна музика música de câmara komorní hudba die Kammermusik kammermusik μουσική δωματίου música de cámara kammermuusika دسته کوچکی از نوازندگان kamarimusiikki musique de chambre מוּזִיקָה קָמרִית चैम्बर संगीत komorna glazba kamarazene musik kamar kammermúsík musica da camera 室内楽 실내악 kamerinė muzika kamermūzika muzik kamar kamermuziek kammermusikk muzyka kameralna ...
9. The private office of a judge.
10. cámara, cavidad; anterior ___ → ___ anterior, situada entre la córnea y el iris;
11. legislature
12. The room used for deliberation by a legislature.
13. A room in a house, especially a bedroom.
14. inner tube
15. A single law office in a building housing several.
    UK
16. A room where a person of authority, rank, or importance receives visitors.
17. Rooms in a lodging house.
    dated, plural-normally
18. chambers The private office where the judge consults with parties and conducts business not required to be brought in open court.
19. Ellipsis of chamber pot (“a container used for urination and defecation in one's chambers”).
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, obsolete
20. chambers Chiefly British A suite of rooms, especially one used by lawyers.
    Chiefly British
21. The legislature or division of the legislature itself.
    figuratively
22. A hall for the meetings of a legislative or other assembly.
23. Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.
24. A legislative or judicial body.
25. An enlarged space in an underground tunnel of a burrowing animal.
26. A board or council.
27. The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.
28. One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver.
29. A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades.
    historical
30. One of the two atria or two ventricles of the heart.

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Examples

“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, / Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, / While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, / As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.”

“A committee of marriageable ladies, or of any Christian persons interested in the propagation of the domestic virtues, should employ a Cruikshank or a Leech, or some other kindly expositor of the follies of the day, to make a series of designs representing the horrors of a bachelor's life in chambers, and leading the beholder to think of better things, and a more wholesome condition.”

“"Jesus Christ! Was my folks refined. My mam she wouldn't think-a lettin' us young'uns call a pee pot a pee pot. A chamber's what she called it... And by God! Us young'uns had ter call the pee pot a chamber or git our God damn necks wrang."”

“The resolution, which speedily passed the Senate, was unable to gain a majority in the lower chamber.”

“A canal lock chamber; a furnace chamber; a test chamber”

“Dianne loaded a cartridge into the chamber of the rifle, then prepared to take aim at the target.”

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