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Being or having a system with two, often unequal, chambers or compartments; of, signifying, relating to, or being the product of such a two-chambered system.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- the bicameral anatomy of the brain
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Of, having, or relating to two separate legislative chambers or houses.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: government
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: unicameral, tricameral
Of a script or typeface: having two cases, upper case and lower case.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: media, publishing, typography
Examples
- 2004, Parmenides, Peter Koch, et al., Carving the Elements: A Companion to the Fragments of Parmenides, page 91, For more than a thousand years, classical Greek has been habitually written in a bicameral, polytonic alphabet (one with caps and lower case and a set of diacritics marking tone and aspiration).
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Relating to the functions of the two cerebral hemispheres in the history of human beings ‘hearing’ the speech of gods or idols, according to Julian Jaynes's theory of the bicameral mind.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
composed of two legislative bodies
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: unicameral
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adjective satellite
Meaning 6
consisting of two chambers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the bicameral heart of a fish
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: two-chambered
Antonyms: none provided
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh1 Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Italic *dwi- Latin bi-bor. English bi- Proto-Indo-European *kh2em-der. Proto-Indo-Iranian *kmárati Proto-Iranian *kamarāder. Ancient Greek καμάρᾱ (kamárā)bor. Latin camera English -al English bicameral From bi- + Latin camera (“chamber”) + English -al.
Across languages
Translations
29 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
двукамарен
(dvukamaren)
— having two separate legislative chambers
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Catalan:
bicameral
— having two separate legislative chambers
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Chinese Mandarin:
兩院制的 /两院制的
(liǎngyuànzhì de)
— having two separate legislative chambers
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Chinese Mandarin:
有兩個議院的 /有两个议院的
(yǒu liǎng gè yìyuàn de)
— having two separate legislative chambers
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Czech:
dvoukomorový
— having two separate legislative chambers
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Czech:
bikamerální
— having two separate legislative chambers
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Dutch:
bikameraal
— having two separate legislative chambers
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Dutch:
tweekamerhig
— having two separate legislative chambers
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Finnish:
kaksikamarinen
— having two separate legislative chambers
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French:
bicaméral
— having two separate legislative chambers
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Georgian:
ორპალატიანი
(orṗalaṭiani)
— having two separate legislative chambers
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German:
Zweikammer
— having two separate legislative chambers
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Hungarian:
kétkamarás
— having two separate legislative chambers
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Icelandic:
tveggja deilda
— having two separate legislative chambers
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Icelandic:
með þvær þingdeildir
— having two separate legislative chambers
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Italian:
bicamerale
— having two separate legislative chambers
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Japanese:
二院制
(niinsei)
— having two separate legislative chambers
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Korean:
양원제의
(yang'wonje'ui)
— having two separate legislative chambers
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Polish:
dwuizbowy
— having two separate legislative chambers
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Polish:
bikameralny
— having two separate legislative chambers
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Portuguese:
bicameral
— having two separate legislative chambers
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Portuguese:
bicamaral
— having two separate legislative chambers
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Romanian:
bicameral
— having two separate legislative chambers
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Russian:
двухпала́тный
(dvuxpalátnyj)
— having two separate legislative chambers
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Spanish:
bicameral
— having two separate legislative chambers
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Ukrainian:
двопала́тний
(dvopalátnyj)
— having two separate legislative chambers
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Finnish:
bikameraalinen
— (typography, of a typeface or script) Having two cases: uppercase and lowercase
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French:
bicaméral
— (typography, of a typeface or script) Having two cases: uppercase and lowercase
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Russian:
име́ющий ве́рхний и ни́жний реги́стры
(iméjuščij vérxnij i nížnij regístry)
— (typography, of a typeface or script) Having two cases: uppercase and lowercase
