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[1] Robert, 1802–71, Scottish publisher and editor.
[2] Robert William, 1865–1933, U.S. novelist and illustrator.
[3] Whittaker Jay David Chambers , 1901–61, U.S. journalist, Communist spy, and accuser of Alger Hiss.
[4] a room, usually private, in a house or apartment, especially a bedroom: She retired to her chamber.
[5] a room in a palace or official residence.
[6] the meeting hall of a legislative or other assembly.
[7] chambers, Law . a place where a judge hears matters not requiring action in open court. the private office of a judge. (in England) the quarters or rooms that lawyers use to consult with their clients, especially in the Inns of Court.
[8] a legislative, judicial, or other like body: the upper or the lower chamber of a legislature.
[9] an organization of individuals or companies for a specified purpose.
[10] the place where the moneys due a government are received and kept; a treasury or chamberlain's office.
[11] (in early New England) any bedroom above the ground floor, generally named for the ground-floor room beneath it.
[12] a compartment or enclosed space; cavity: a chamber of the heart.
[13] (in a canal or the like) the space between any two gates of a lock.
[14] a receptacle for one or more cartridges in a firearm, or for a shell in a gun or other cannon.
[15] (in a gun) the part of the barrel that receives the charge.
[16] chamber pot.
[17] of, relating to, or performing chamber music: chamber players.
[18] to put or enclose in, or as in, a chamber.
[19] to provide with a chamber.
[20] a judge's room for hearing cases not taken in open court
[21] (in England) the set of rooms occupied by barristers where clients are interviewed (in London, mostly in the Inns of Court)
[22] British archaic a suite of rooms; apartments
[23] (in the US) the private office of a judge
[24] in chambers law in the privacy of a judge's chambers in a court not open to the public Former name for sense 5: in camera
[25] a meeting hall, esp one used for a legislative or judicial assembly
[26] a reception room or audience room in an official residence, palace, etc
[27] archaic , or poetic a room in a private house, esp a bedroom
[28] a legislative, deliberative, judicial, or administrative assembly any of the houses of a legislature
[29] an enclosed space; compartment; cavity the smallest chamber in the caves
[30] the space between two gates of the locks of a canal, dry dock, etc
[31] an enclosure for a cartridge in the cylinder of a revolver or for a shell in the breech of a cannon
[32] obsolete a place where the money of a government, corporation, etc, was stored; treasury
[33] short for chamber pot
[34] NZ the freezing room in an abattoir
[35] (modifier) of, relating to, or suitable for chamber music a chamber concert
[36] (tr) to put in or provide with a chamber

Words related to Chambers

box, apartment, room, cell, bedroom, cubicle, hall, legislature, organization, case, flat, container, cavity, hollow, pocket, alcove, chest, lodging, enclosure, socket

Origin of Chambers

1175–1225; Middle English chambre < Old French < Latin camera, variant of camara vaulted room, vault < Greek kamára

Other words from Chambers

un·der·cham·ber , noun

Word origin for Chambers

C13: from Old French chambre, from Late Latin camera room, Latin: vault, from Greek kamara

Synonyms for Chambers

apartment, bedroom, box, cell, cubicle, hall, room, alcove, antechamber, bedchamber, case, cavity, chest, container, enclosure, flat, hollow, lodging, pocket, socket