Phrase guide

chamber music

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A genre of classical music written for a small group of instruments

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music

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Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

serious music performed by a small group of musicians

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: classical music, classical, serious music

History

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Across languages

Translations

62 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: kamermusiek — chamber music
  • Arabic: موسيقى الحجرة — chamber music
  • Armenian: կամերային երաժշտություն (kamerayin eražštutʻyun) — chamber music
  • Asturian: música de cámara — chamber music
  • Azerbaijani: kamera musiqisi — chamber music
  • Basque: ganbera-musika — chamber music
  • Belarusian: камерная музыка (kamjernaja muzyka) — chamber music
  • Bulgarian: камерна музика (kamerna muzika) — chamber music
  • Catalan: música de cambra — chamber music
  • Chinese Mandarin: 室內樂 /室内乐 (shìnèiyuè) — chamber music
  • Chuvash: rамера кӗвви (ramera k̬ĕvvi) — chamber music
  • Czech: komorní hudba — chamber music
  • Danish: kammermusik — chamber music
  • Dutch: kamermuziek — chamber music
  • Esperanto: ĉambra muziko — chamber music
  • Estonian: kammermuusika — chamber music
  • Faroese: kamartónleikur — chamber music
  • Finnish: kamarimusiikki — chamber music
  • French: musique de chambre — chamber music
  • Galician: música de cámara — chamber music
  • Georgian: კამერული მუსიკა (ḳameruli musiḳa) — chamber music
  • German: Kammermusik — chamber music
  • Greek: μουσική δωματίου (mousikí domatíou) — chamber music
  • Hebrew: מוזיקה קאמרית — chamber music
  • Hungarian: kamarazene — chamber music
  • Icelandic: kammertónlist — chamber music
  • Icelandic: kammermúsík — chamber music
  • Indonesian: musik kamar — chamber music
  • Irish: ceol aireagail — chamber music
  • Italian: musica da camera — chamber music
  • Japanese: 重奏 (jūsō) — chamber music
  • Japanese: 室内楽 (shitsunaigaku) — chamber music
  • Kazakh: камералық музыка (kameralyq muzyka) — chamber music
  • Korean: 실내악 (sillaeak) — chamber music
  • Kyrgyz: камералык музыка (kameralık muzıka) — chamber music
  • Latvian: kamermūzika — chamber music
  • Lithuanian: kamerinė muzika — chamber music
  • Macedonian: камерна музика (kamerna muzika) — chamber music
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kammermusikk — chamber music
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kammermusikk — chamber music
  • Persian: موسیقی مجلسی — chamber music
  • Polish: kameralistyka — chamber music
  • Polish: muzyka kameralna — chamber music
  • Portuguese: música de câmara — chamber music
  • Romanian: muzică de cameră — chamber music
  • Russian: ка́мерная му́зыка (kámernaja múzyka) — chamber music
  • Scottish Gaelic: ceòl seòmrach — chamber music
  • Serbo-Croatian: komorna glazba — chamber music
  • Sinhalese: චේම්බර් සංගීතය (cēmbar saṁgītaya) — chamber music
  • Slovak: komorná hudba — chamber music
  • Slovene: komorna glasba — chamber music
  • Spanish: música de cámara — chamber music
  • Swedish: kammarmusik — chamber music
  • Tagalog: tugtuging pangkamara — chamber music
  • Tajik: мусиқии камеравӣ (musiqi-yi kameravi) — chamber music
  • Thai: ดนตรีเชมเบอร์ — chamber music
  • Tibetan: ནང་མའི་རོལ་མོ (nang ma'i rol mo) — chamber music
  • Turkish: oda müziği — chamber music
  • Ukrainian: камерна музика (kamerna muzyka) — chamber music
  • Vietnamese: nhạc thính phòng — chamber music
  • Welsh: cerddoriaeth siambr — chamber music
  • Yakut: камернай музыка (kamernay muzïka) — chamber music