Meaning

A room or set of rooms, particularly:.

Definitions by Sense

1. A room or set of rooms, particularly:
2. (obsolete) Ellipsis of chamber pot (“a container used for urination and defecation in one's chambers”).
3. (figuratively) The legislature or division of the legislature itself.
4. Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.
5. (biology) An enlarged space in an underground tunnel of a burrowing animal.
6. (firearms) The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.
7. (firearms) One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver.
8. (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

"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.

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

I chambered with Alexander Preston.

The hunter fired at the geese and missed, then shrugged his shoulders and chambered another cartridge.

The rifle was originally chambered for 9mm, but had since been modified for a larger, wildcat caliber.

Word Forms

• chambers
• chambre
• chambering
• chambered

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When Should You Use Chamber?

Use chamber when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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