Standard Lemma guide

chamber

name · noun · verb · 27 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃeɪ̯mbə/
  • Received-Pronunciation: [ˈt͡ʃheɪ̯mbə]
  • General-American: /ˈt͡ʃeɪ̯mbɚ/
  • General-American: [ˈt͡ʃheɪ̯mbɚ] ~ [ˈt͡ʃheɪ̯mbɹ̩]
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  • rhymes with -eɪmbə(ɹ)
  • CMU ARPABET: CH EY1 M B ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A room or set of rooms

The private room of an individual, especially of someone wealthy or noble.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A room or set of rooms

A bedroom.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A room or set of rooms

The private office of a judge.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A room or set of rooms

The room used for deliberation by a legislature.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

A room or set of rooms

A single law office in a building housing several.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

A room or set of rooms

Rooms in a lodging house.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: dated, plural-normally

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

Ellipsis of chamber pot (“a container used for urination and defecation in one's chambers”).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

The legislature or division of the legislature itself.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: figuratively

Examples

  • The resolution, which speedily passed the Senate, was unable to gain a majority in the lower chamber.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

noun

Meaning 11

An enlarged space in an underground tunnel of a burrowing animal.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: biology, natural-sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: engineering, firearms, government, military, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, politics, tools, war, weaponry

Examples

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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

noun

Meaning 13

One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: engineering, firearms, government, military, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, politics, tools, war, weaponry

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

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14

noun

Meaning 14

A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: historical

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

15

noun

Meaning 15

One of the two atria or two ventricles of the heart.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

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16

verb

Meaning 16

To enclose in a room.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

17

verb

Meaning 17

To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

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18

verb

Meaning 18

To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

19

verb

Meaning 19

To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

20

verb

Meaning 20

To prepare an offensive, defensive, or counteroffensive action by drawing a limb or weapon to a position where it may be charged with kinetic energy.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Topics: government, hobbies, lifestyle, martial-arts, military, politics, sports, war

Examples

  • Bob chambered his fist for a blow, but Sheila struck first.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

21

verb

Meaning 21

To be lascivious.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

22

noun

Meaning 22

a room used primarily for sleeping

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: bedroom, sleeping room, sleeping accommodation, bedchamber

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: room

Narrower terms: boudoir, child's room, dormitory, dormitory room, dorm room, guestroom, hotel room, master bedroom, motel room

23

noun

Meaning 23

a natural or artificial enclosed space

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: enclosure

Narrower terms: airlock, air lock, bomb shelter, air-raid shelter, bombproof, burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture, caisson, pneumatic caisson, cofferdam, camera obscura, core, cylinder, piston chamber, firing chamber, gun chamber, furnace, hyperbaric chamber, particle detector, resonator, cavity resonator, resonating chamber, steam chest, stokehold, stokehole, fireroom, stuffing box, packing box, tokamak, vacuum chamber

24

noun

Meaning 24

a room where a judge transacts business

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: room

Narrower terms: divan, diwan

25

noun

Meaning 25

an enclosed volume in the body

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the chambers of his heart were healthy

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: cavity, bodily cavity, cavum

Narrower terms: ventricle, heart ventricle, atrium

26

noun

Meaning 26

a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the upper chamber is the senate

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: assembly

27

verb

Meaning 27

place in a chamber

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: house, put up, domiciliate

History

Etymology

From Middle English chambre, borrowed from Old French chambre, from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “vaulted chamber”). Doublet of camera.

Across languages

Translations

228 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: غُرْفَة (ḡurfa) — room or set of rooms
  • Arabic: حُجْرَة (ḥujra) — room or set of rooms
  • Belarusian: пако́й (pakój) — room or set of rooms
  • Bulgarian: ста́я (stája) — room or set of rooms
  • Chinese Mandarin: 房間 /房间 (fángjiān) — room or set of rooms
  • Czech: pokoj — room or set of rooms
  • Esperanto: ĉambro — room or set of rooms
  • Finnish: huone — room or set of rooms
  • Finnish: huoneisto — room or set of rooms
  • Galician: cámara — room or set of rooms
  • Gothic: 𐌷𐌴𐌸𐌾𐍉 (hēþjō) — room or set of rooms
  • Ancient Greek: θάλαμος (thálamos) — room or set of rooms
  • Hindi: कक्ष (kakṣ) — room or set of rooms
  • Japanese: 部屋 (heya) — room or set of rooms
  • Korean: 방 (bang) — room or set of rooms
  • Latin: camera — room or set of rooms
  • Macedonian: со́ба (sóba) — room or set of rooms
  • Macedonian: о́даја (ódaja) — room or set of rooms
  • Macedonian: ста́ја (stája) — room or set of rooms
  • Iranian Persian: اُتاق (otâġ) — room or set of rooms
  • Plautdietsch: Stow — room or set of rooms
  • Polish: pokój — room or set of rooms
  • Polish: izba — room or set of rooms
  • Russian: ко́мната (kómnata) — room or set of rooms
  • Russian: пала́та (paláta) — room or set of rooms
  • Slovak: izba — room or set of rooms
  • Spanish: aposento — room or set of rooms
  • Spanish: escandalar — room or set of rooms
  • Spanish: escandelar — room or set of rooms
  • Tamil: அறை (aṟai) — room or set of rooms
  • Turkish: oda — room or set of rooms
  • Ottoman Turkish: حجره (hücre) — room or set of rooms
  • Ukrainian: кімна́та (kimnáta) — room or set of rooms
  • Ukrainian: покі́й (pokíj) — room or set of rooms
  • Arabic: حُجْرَة (ḥujra) — individual's private room
  • Belarusian: пако́й (pakój) — individual's private room
  • Bulgarian: ста́я (stája) — individual's private room
  • Bulgarian: поко́и (pokói) — individual's private room
  • Esperanto: ĉelo — individual's private room
  • Esperanto: ĉambro — individual's private room
  • Finnish: huone — individual's private room
  • Galician: cámara — individual's private room
  • Galician: cuarto — individual's private room
  • Ancient Greek: θάλαμος (thálamos) — individual's private room
  • Ancient Greek: δωμάτιον (dōmátion) — individual's private room
  • Macedonian: со́ба (sóba) — individual's private room
  • Middle English: bour — individual's private room
  • Russian: ко́мната (kómnata) — individual's private room
  • Tamil: அறை (aṟai) — individual's private room
  • Ukrainian: кімна́та (kimnáta) — individual's private room
  • Ukrainian: покі́й (pokíj) — individual's private room
  • Arabic: غُرْفَة (ḡurfa) — bedroom
  • Arabic: غُرْفَةُ نَوْم (ḡurfatu nawm) — bedroom
  • Arabic: بيت (bīt) — bedroom
  • Belarusian: спа́льня (spálʹnja) — bedroom
  • Bulgarian: ста́я (stája) — bedroom
  • Bulgarian: спа́лня (spálnja) — bedroom
  • Catalan: cambra — bedroom
  • Chinese Mandarin: 臥室 /卧室 (wòshì) — bedroom
  • Chinese Mandarin: 寢室 /寝室 (qǐnshì) — bedroom
  • Chinese Mandarin: 房間 /房间 (fángjiān) — bedroom
  • Maore Comorian: fuko — bedroom
  • Dutch: slaapkamer — bedroom
  • Esperanto: dormoĉambro — bedroom
  • Finnish: makuuhuone — bedroom
  • Finnish: kamari — bedroom
  • French: chambre — bedroom
  • French: pièce — bedroom
  • Galician: cuarto — bedroom
  • Galician: cámara — bedroom
  • German: Raum — bedroom
  • German: Schlafzimmer — bedroom
  • German: Zimmer — bedroom
  • German: Kammer — bedroom
  • German: Gemach — bedroom
  • German: Schlafgemach — bedroom
  • Bavarian German: Kauma — bedroom
  • Greek: θάλαμος (thálamos) — bedroom
  • Greek: υπνοδωμάτιο (ypnodomátio) — bedroom
  • Greek: κοιτώνας (koitónas) — bedroom
  • Greek: κρεβατοκάμαρα (krevatokámara) — bedroom
  • Hindi: शयनकक्ष (śayankakṣ) — bedroom
  • Hungarian: hálószoba — bedroom
  • Ingrian: kammari — bedroom
  • Irish: seomra — bedroom
  • Japanese: 寝室 (shinshitsu) — bedroom
  • Japanese: 部屋 (heya) — bedroom
  • Korean: 침실 (chimsil) — bedroom
  • Latin: camera — bedroom
  • Latin: cubiculum — bedroom
  • Macedonian: спа́лна (spálna) — bedroom
  • Macedonian: со́ба (sóba) — bedroom
  • Middle English: bour — bedroom
  • Norwegian Bokmål: rom — bedroom
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kammer — bedroom
  • Occitan: cambra — bedroom
  • Iranian Persian: اُتاقِ خواب (otâġ-e xâb) — bedroom
  • Iranian Persian: اُطاقِ خواب (otâġ-e xâb) — bedroom
  • Iranian Persian: خوابْگاه (xâbgâh) — bedroom
  • Polish: komnata — bedroom
  • Portuguese: câmara — bedroom
  • Portuguese: quarto — bedroom
  • Romanian: cameră — bedroom
  • Romanian: dormitor — bedroom
  • Russian: ко́мната (kómnata) — bedroom
  • Russian: спа́льня (spálʹnja) — bedroom
  • Russian: пала́та (paláta) — bedroom
  • Scots: chaumer — bedroom
  • Lower Sorbian: komora — bedroom
  • Spanish: cámara — bedroom
  • Spanish: alcoba — bedroom
  • Swedish: rum — bedroom
  • Swedish: sovrum — bedroom
  • Tamil: படுக்கையறை (paṭukkaiyaṟai) — bedroom
  • Tamil: அறை (aṟai) — bedroom
  • Turkish: yatak odası — bedroom
  • Ukrainian: спа́льня (spálʹnja) — bedroom
  • Urdu: خْوَاب گاہ (xvāb gāh) — bedroom
  • Urdu: آرام گاہ (ārām gāh) — bedroom
  • Urdu: شَبِسْتان (śabistān) — bedroom
  • Finnish: toimisto — private office of a judge
  • Hebrew: לִשְׁכָּה (lishká) — private office of a judge
  • Finnish: istuntosali — room used for deliberation by a legislature
  • Finnish: sali — room used for deliberation by a legislature
  • Finnish: kamari — room used for deliberation by a legislature
  • French: chambre — room used for deliberation by a legislature
  • Galician: cámara — room used for deliberation by a legislature
  • Russian: пала́та (paláta) — room used for deliberation by a legislature
  • Bulgarian: ста́я (stája) — rooms in a lodging house
  • Finnish: asuntola — rooms in a lodging house
  • Hebrew: צִימֵר — rooms in a lodging house
  • Hebrew: צִימֶר (tsímer) — rooms in a lodging house
  • Russian: ко́мната (kómnata) — rooms in a lodging house
  • Tamil: அறை (aṟai) — rooms in a lodging house
  • Arabic: مَجْلِس (majlis) — legislative body
  • Arabic: غُرْفَة (ḡurfa) — legislative body
  • Belarusian: пала́та (paláta) — legislative body
  • Bulgarian: пала́та (paláta) — legislative body
  • Catalan: cambra — legislative body
  • Chinese Mandarin: 院 (yuàn) — legislative body
  • Czech: komora — legislative body
  • Dutch: kamer — legislative body
  • Esperanto: ĉambro — legislative body
  • Finnish: kamari — legislative body
  • French: chambre — legislative body
  • German: Plenarsaal — legislative body
  • German: Kammer — legislative body
  • Bavarian German: Kauma — legislative body
  • Greek: επιμελητήριο (epimelitírio) — legislative body
  • Greek: διασκεπτήριο (diaskeptírio) — legislative body
  • Hindi: सदन (sadan) — legislative body
  • Hindi: मंडल (maṇḍal) — legislative body
  • Hungarian: kamara — legislative body
  • Indonesian: dewan — legislative body
  • Italian: camera — legislative body
  • Japanese: 院 (in) — legislative body
  • Korean: 원 (won) — legislative body
  • Macedonian: дом (dom) — legislative body
  • Macedonian: па́лата (pálata) — legislative body
  • Malay: dewan — legislative body
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kammer — legislative body
  • Iranian Persian: اُتاق (otâġ) — legislative body
  • Polish: izba — legislative body
  • Portuguese: câmara — legislative body
  • Romanian: cameră — legislative body
  • Russian: пала́та (paláta) — legislative body
  • Slovak: komora — legislative body
  • Spanish: cámara — legislative body
  • Turkish: oda — legislative body
  • Ukrainian: пала́та (paláta) — legislative body
  • Arabic: مَجْلِس (majlis) — enclosed space similar to a room
  • Armenian: խցիկ (xcʻik) — enclosed space similar to a room
  • Bulgarian: ка́мера (kámera) — enclosed space similar to a room
  • Catalan: cambra — enclosed space similar to a room
  • Chinese Mandarin: 室內 /室内 (shìnèi) — enclosed space similar to a room
  • Czech: komora — enclosed space similar to a room
  • Dutch: kamer — enclosed space similar to a room
  • Esperanto: ĉambro — enclosed space similar to a room
  • Esperanto: kamero — enclosed space similar to a room
  • Finnish: kammio — enclosed space similar to a room
  • Finnish: allas — enclosed space similar to a room
  • Finnish: pesä — enclosed space similar to a room
  • French: chambre — enclosed space similar to a room
  • French: salle — enclosed space similar to a room
  • Galician: cámara — enclosed space similar to a room
  • German: Kammer — enclosed space similar to a room
  • Bavarian German: Kauma — enclosed space similar to a room
  • Greek: θάλαμος (thálamos) — enclosed space similar to a room
  • Greek: εντευκτήριο (entefktírio) — enclosed space similar to a room
  • Greek: αίθουσα (aíthousa) — enclosed space similar to a room
  • Hindi: कक्ष (kakṣ) — enclosed space similar to a room
  • Hungarian: kamra — enclosed space similar to a room
  • Icelandic: klefi — enclosed space similar to a room
  • Macedonian: пре́града (prégrada) — enclosed space similar to a room
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kammer — enclosed space similar to a room
  • Polish: komora — enclosed space similar to a room
  • Portuguese: câmara — enclosed space similar to a room
  • Russian: ка́мера (kámera) — enclosed space similar to a room
  • Spanish: cámara — enclosed space similar to a room
  • Spanish: recámara — enclosed space similar to a room
  • Ukrainian: ка́мера (kámera) — enclosed space similar to a room
  • Arabic: حُجْرَة (ḥujra) — part of a firearm holding the round before firing
  • Bulgarian: патро́нник (patrónnik) — part of a firearm holding the round before firing
  • Catalan: recambra — part of a firearm holding the round before firing
  • Catalan: cambra — part of a firearm holding the round before firing
  • Chinese Mandarin: 彈膛 /弹膛 (dàntáng) — part of a firearm holding the round before firing
  • Dutch: kamer — part of a firearm holding the round before firing
  • Esperanto: kamero — part of a firearm holding the round before firing
  • Finnish: patruunapesä — part of a firearm holding the round before firing
  • French: chambre — part of a firearm holding the round before firing
  • German: Kammer — part of a firearm holding the round before firing
  • Bavarian German: Kauma — part of a firearm holding the round before firing
  • Greek: θαλάμη (thalámi) — part of a firearm holding the round before firing
  • Irish: cuasán — part of a firearm holding the round before firing
  • Korean: 약실 (yaksil) — part of a firearm holding the round before firing
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kammer — part of a firearm holding the round before firing
  • Polish: komora — part of a firearm holding the round before firing
  • Portuguese: câmara — part of a firearm holding the round before firing
  • Russian: патро́нник (patrónnik) — part of a firearm holding the round before firing
  • Russian: ка́мора (kámora) — part of a firearm holding the round before firing
  • Spanish: recámara — part of a firearm holding the round before firing
  • Ottoman Turkish: خزینه (hazine) — part of a firearm holding the round before firing
  • Bulgarian: патро́нник (patrónnik) — compartment holding a bullet of a revolver
  • Finnish: patruunapesä — compartment holding a bullet of a revolver
  • Galician: cámara — compartment holding a bullet of a revolver
  • Macedonian: ле́жиште (léžište) — compartment holding a bullet of a revolver
  • Russian: патро́нник (patrónnik) — compartment holding a bullet of a revolver
  • Ottoman Turkish: خزینه (hazine) — compartment holding a bullet of a revolver
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