Chummery

Quick meaning: Chummery is a noun meaning (India, historical) The building in which unmarried British army officers were quartered during the British Raj.

Meaning

(India, historical) The building in which unmarried British army officers were quartered during the British Raj.

More Meanings

1. (South Asia) The shared home of a group of men who are unmarried or working at a distance from their families.

Example Sentences

Where single men lived together in a household, known as a chummery, the head servant or khansamah took charge over the food preparation.

Dicky could not afford living in the chummery, modest as it was. He had to explain this before he moved to a single room next the office where he worked all day.

His first six months in Burma he had spent in Rangoon, where he was supposed to be learning the office side of his business. He had lived in a "chummery" with four other youths who devoted their entire energies to debauchery.

At his arrival in Rangoon, Braund is greeted by five chums from his London office days. […] His accommodations are in a sixth floor chummery, or company bachelor housing, which he shares with five other assistants. This is a dump, and junior assistants with more time in Rangoon board in a somewhat more regal chummery known as "The Gin Palace."

Word Forms

• chummeries

Related Words

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