chambers

Meanings

Noun

• English architect (1723-1796)
• a natural or artificial enclosed space
• an enclosed volume in the body
  • "the chambers of his heart were healthy"
• a room where a judge transacts business
• a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly
• a room used primarily for sleeping
• A set of rooms in a building used as an office or a residential apartment.
• Chiefly in in chambers: a judge's private office which is used for hearings that do not need to be held in open court.
• 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.
• 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”).
• 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by imaginary lines connecting headlands, over which the Crown asserted exclusive jurisdiction; these have now been superseded by the concept of the territorial sea.
• A midmorning break at Eton College.
• plural of chamber

Verb

• place in a chamber
• third-person singular simple present indicative of chamber

Synonyms

bedchamber, bedroom, chamber, Sir William Chambers, sleeping accommodation, sleeping room, William Chambers