name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Standard Lemma guide
chambers
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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General-American: /ˈt͡ʃeɪmbɚz/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃeɪmbəz/
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CMU ARPABET: CH EY1 M B ER0 Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A township in Temagami municipality, Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 3
An unincorporated community in Apache County, Arizona.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 4
A township and village therein, in Holt County, Nebraska.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 5
An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 6
Ellipsis of Chambers County.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 7
A set of rooms in a building used as an office or a residential apartment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, plural, plural-only
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noun
Meaning 8
Chiefly in in chambers: a judge's private office which is used for hearings that do not need to be held in open court.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, plural, plural-only
Topics: law
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noun
Meaning 9
Originally, a set of rooms at an Inn of Court used by one or more barristers as an office and residence; now, the office of one or more barristers in any building.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, broadly, plural, plural-only
Topics: law
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noun
Meaning 10
Euphemistic form of chamber pot (“a container used for defecation and urination”); also, synonym of potty (“a small (chiefly plastic) pot used by children for defecation and urination when toilet-training”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: euphemistic, form-of, plural, plural-only
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noun
Meaning 11
In full king's chambers: parts of the sea next to the coast of England and Wales delimited by imaginary lines connecting headlands, over which the Crown asserted exclusive jurisdiction; these have now been superseded by the concept of the territorial sea.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, historical, plural, plural-only
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noun
Meaning 12
A midmorning break at Eton College.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
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noun
Meaning 13
plural of chamber
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural
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verb
Meaning 14
third-person singular simple present indicative of chamber
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
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noun
Meaning 15
English architect (1723-1796)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: William Chambers, Sir William Chambers
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: architect, designer
History
Etymology
From chamber + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum and regular plurals of nouns, and the third-person singular simple present indicative forms of verbs).
Across languages
Translations
6 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: покои (pokoi) — set of rooms in a building used as an office or a residential apartment
- Finnish: huoneisto — set of rooms in a building used as an office or a residential apartment
- Ukrainian: поко́ї (pokóji) — set of rooms in a building used as an office or a residential apartment
- Finnish: tuomarin toimisto — judge’s private office which is used for hearings that do not need to be held in open court
- Finnish: asianajajan toimisto — originally, a set of rooms at an Inn of Court used by one or more barristers as an office and residence; now, the office of one or more barristers in any building
- Finnish: kruunun toimivaltainen merialue — parts of the sea next to the coast of England and Wales delimited by imaginary lines connecting headlands, over which the Crown asserted exclusive jurisdiction
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