chamber
[noun]
Synonyms:
- room, apartment, bedroom, compartment, cubicle, enclosure, hall
- council, assembly, legislative body, legislature

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

cham‧ber /ˈtʃeɪmbə $ -ər/ noun
[Date: 1100-1200; Language: Old French; Origin: chambre, from Late Latin camera, from Latin, 'curved roof', from Greek kamara]

1. ENCLOSED SPACE [countable] an enclosed space, especially in your body or inside a machine:
a combustion chamber
The heart has four chambers.

2. ROOM [countable] a room used for a special purpose, especially an unpleasant one
gas/torture chamber (=used for killing people by gas or for hurting them)

3. MEETING ROOM [countable] a large room in a public building used for important meetings:
the council chamber

4. PARLIAMENT [countable] one of the two parts of a parliament or of the US Congress. For example, in Britain the upper chamber is the House of Lords and the lower chamber is the House of Commons.

5. PRIVATE ROOM [countable] a word used in the past to mean a bedroom or private room:
the Queen’s private chambers

6. chambers [plural] especially British English an office or offices used by barristers or judges

7. GUN [countable] the part of a gun where you put the bullets

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

chamber
noun
I. room/enclosed space
ADJ. dark, dim | secret | inner, main, outer | underground, subterranean | burial, tomb a Bronze Age burial chamber
torture | gas Millions died in the gas chambers in the war.
decompression
CHAMBER + NOUN door

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chamber
II. large room, especially used for formal meetings
ADJ. grand, great, large, vast | high-ceilinged, vaulted | conference, council, debating
PREP. in a/the ~

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chamber
III. part of a government
ADJ. first, lower, second, upper | elected She believes there should be an elected second chamber to replace the House of Lords.
legislative, parliamentary
PHRASES the Chamber of Deputies

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