chamber

Definitions

1. 1noun

   A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.

2. 2noun

   Apartments in a lodging house.

3. 3noun

   A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative body or assembly meets; as, presence chamber; senate chamber.

4. 4noun

   A legislative or judicial body; an assembly; a society or association; as, the Chamber of Deputies; the Chamber of Commerce.

5. 5noun

   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. 6noun

   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. 7noun

   A chamber pot.

8. 8noun

   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.

9. 9noun

   A cavity in a mine, usually of a cubical form, to contain the powder.

10. 10noun

    A short piece of ordnance or cannon, which stood on its breech, without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for rejoicings and theatrical cannonades.

11. 11intransitive verb

    To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.

12. 12intransitive verb

    To be lascivious.

13. 13transitive verb

    To shut up, as in a chamber.

14. 14transitive verb

    To furnish with a chamber; as, to chamber a gun.

15. 15noun

    a room used primarily for sleeping

    Synonyms

    bedchamberbedroom
16. 16noun

    a natural or artificial enclosed space

17. 17noun

    a room where a judge transacts business

18. 18noun

    an enclosed volume in the body

    "the chambers of his heart were healthy"

19. 19noun

    a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly

    "the upper chamber is the senate"

20. 20verb

    place in a chamber