Definition

1. Noun:

   • A room used primarily for sleeping: A private room, especially a bedroom.
   • A deliberative, legislative, administrative, or judicial assembly: A formal meeting hall or the body that meets there, such as a legislative house.
   • A room where a judge transacts business: A private office for a judge, often used for hearings not held in open court.
   • An enclosed volume in the body: A compartment or cavity within an organ, such as the heart.
   • A natural or artificial enclosed space: A hollow compartment or cavity within a structure or mechanism.

2. Verb:

   • To place in a chamber: To put or enclose something within a room or compartment.

Usage Examples

• Noun:

  • The king retired to his private chamber. (The king went to his private room, typically for sleeping.)
  • The bill was debated in the upper chamber of the legislature. (The bill was discussed in the senate or similar legislative body.)
  • The lawyers met the judge in his chamber. (The lawyers met the judge in his private office.)
  • Blood flows from the atrium to the ventricle in the heart's chambers. (Blood moves between the enclosed compartments of the heart.)
  • The combustion chamber of the engine was inspected. (The enclosed space where fuel burns in the engine was examined.)

• Verb:

  • The sample was carefully chambered for analysis. (The sample was placed into a special compartment for examination.)

Advanced Usage

• "In camera": A legal term meaning a hearing held in a judge's private chambers, not in open court.
  • The sensitive testimony was heard in camera.
• "Chamber of horrors": An exhibition or place featuring frightening or grotesque sights.
  • The museum's basement was like a chamber of horrors.

Variants and Related Words

• Chambered (adj): Having compartments or chambers.
  • A chambered nautilus.
• Chambermaid (n): A maid who cleans and cares for bedrooms, especially in a hotel.
• Chamber music (n): Classical music composed for a small ensemble, traditionally suitable for performance in a room.
• Chamber pot (n): A portable container used as a toilet, historically kept in a bedroom.

Synonyms

• Room (for a sleeping room or private office).
• Hall or House (for a legislative assembly).
• Cavity or Compartment (for an enclosed space).

Related Phrases

• Chamber of commerce: An association of businesspeople to promote commercial interests.
  • The local chamber of commerce organized a networking event.
• Gas chamber: An enclosed space used for execution by poison gas.
• Star chamber: Refers to a secret, unfair, or arbitrary court or proceeding (from a historical English court).

Noun

1. a room used primarily for sleeping
2. a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly
   • the upper chamber is the senate
3. a room where a judge transacts business
4. an enclosed volume in the body
   • the chambers of his heart were healthy
5. a natural or artificial enclosed space

Verb

1. place in a chamber