Chamber Meaning
/ˈtʃeɪmbə(ɹ)/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
Listen pronunciation
Definition
nounA room or set of rooms
nounA room or set of rooms, The private room of an individual, especially of someone wealthy or noble.
Sentence Examples
"My lady is in her chamber," said the servant.
Under the Constitution, the lower chamber's resolutions override those of the upper chamber.
The members left the council chamber.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The bullet fired from the gun's ____ and flew toward the target.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The heart has four separate ____ that help pump blood through body.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English chambre, borrowed from Old French chambre, from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “vaulted chamber”). Doublet of camera.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, / Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, / While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, / As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door."
— 1845 February, — Quarles [pseudonym; Edgar Allan Poe], “The Raven”, in The American Review, volume I, number II, New York, N.Y.; London: Wiley & Putnam, […], →OCLC, page 143:
"A committee of marriageable ladies, or of any Christian persons interested in the propagation of the domestic virtues, should employ a Cruikshank or a Leech, or some other kindly expositor of the follies of the day, to make a series of designs representing the horrors of a bachelor's life in chambers, and leading the beholder to think of better things, and a more wholesome condition."
— 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Which Had Very Nearly Been the Last of the Story”, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume II, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 120:
""Jesus Christ! Was my folks refined. My mam she wouldn't think-a lettin' us young'uns call a pee pot a pee pot. A chamber's what she called it... And by God! Us young'uns had ter call the pee pot a chamber or git our God damn necks wrang.""
— 1946, Elizabeth Metzger Howard, Before the Sun Goes Down, page 31:
"I chambered with Alexander Preston."
— 1893, Publications of the Scottish History Society, volume 14, page 64:
Explore More B2 Vocabulary Words
CEFR Practice Quiz
The bullet fired from the gun's ____ and flew toward the target.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The heart has four separate ____ that help pump blood through body.