Chamber

Quick meaning: Chamber is a noun meaning A room or set of rooms, particularly:.

Meaning

A room or set of rooms, particularly:.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) The legislature or division of the legislature itself.
2. Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.
3. (biology) An enlarged space in an underground tunnel of a burrowing animal.
4. (firearms) The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.
5. (firearms) One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver.
6. (obsolete) Ellipsis of chamber pot (“a container used for urination and defecation in one's chambers”).
7. (historical) A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades.

Example Sentences

I chambered with Alexander Preston.

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

She had chambered herself in her room, and wouldn't come out.

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

Word Forms

• chambers
• chambre
• chambering
• chambered

Synonyms for chamber

Depending on context, synonyms include blissom, lust, bedchamber, bedroom.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bedchamber, bedroom, room, house, sala, accommodation.

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