name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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name
A surname.
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noun
A room or set of rooms
The private room of an individual, especially of someone wealthy or noble.
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noun
A room or set of rooms
A bedroom.
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noun
A room or set of rooms
The private office of a judge.
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noun
A room or set of rooms
The room used for deliberation by a legislature.
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noun
A room or set of rooms
A single law office in a building housing several.
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Usage: UK
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noun
A room or set of rooms
Rooms in a lodging house.
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Usage: dated, plural-normally
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noun
Ellipsis of chamber pot (“a container used for urination and defecation in one's chambers”).
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Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, obsolete
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noun
The legislature or division of the legislature itself.
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noun
Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.
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noun
An enlarged space in an underground tunnel of a burrowing animal.
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Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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noun
The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.
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Topics: engineering, firearms, government, military, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, politics, tools, war, weaponry
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noun
One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver.
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Topics: engineering, firearms, government, military, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, politics, tools, war, weaponry
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noun
A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades.
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Usage: historical
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noun
One of the two atria or two ventricles of the heart.
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verb
To enclose in a room.
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verb
To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
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verb
To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition.
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verb
To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber.
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verb
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.
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Usage: transitive
Topics: government, hobbies, lifestyle, martial-arts, military, politics, sports, war
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verb
To be lascivious.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
a room used primarily for sleeping
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Synonyms: bedroom, sleeping room, sleeping accommodation, bedchamber
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Broader terms: room
Narrower terms: boudoir, child's room, dormitory, dormitory room, dorm room, guestroom, hotel room, master bedroom, motel room
noun
a natural or artificial enclosed space
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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
noun
a room where a judge transacts business
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Broader terms: room
Narrower terms: divan, diwan
noun
an enclosed volume in the body
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Broader terms: cavity, bodily cavity, cavum
Narrower terms: ventricle, heart ventricle, atrium
noun
a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly
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Broader terms: assembly
verb
place in a chamber
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Broader terms: house, put up, domiciliate
History
From Middle English chambre, borrowed from Old French chambre, from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “vaulted chamber”). Doublet of camera.
Across languages
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