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chambered

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adjective

having compartmental chambers: a spiral chambered seashell.

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RELATED WORDS

huge, spacious, gaping, vast, roomy, yawning, protect, hide, shield, harbor, surround, lodge, shelter, defend, cover, conceal, safeguard, preserve, secure, house

Nearby words

  1. chamber pop,
  2. chamber pot,
  3. chamber tomb,
  4. chamber-lye,
  5. chamber-pot,
  6. chambered nautilus,
  7. chamberer,
  8. chamberhand,
  9. chamberlain,
  10. chamberlain, joseph

Origin of chambered

1350–1400; Middle English. See chamber, -ed3
Related formsun·cham·bered, adjective

chamber

[cheym-ber]

noun

a room, usually private, in a house or apartment, especially a bedroom: She retired to her chamber.
a room in a palace or official residence.
the meeting hall of a legislative or other assembly.
chambers, Law.
  1. a place where a judge hears matters not requiring action in open court.
  2. the private office of a judge.
  3. (in England) the quarters or rooms that lawyers use to consult with their clients, especially in the Inns of Court.
a legislative, judicial, or other like body: the upper or the lower chamber of a legislature.
an organization of individuals or companies for a specified purpose.
the place where the moneys due a government are received and kept; a treasury or chamberlain's office.
(in early New England) any bedroom above the ground floor, generally named for the ground-floor room beneath it.
a compartment or enclosed space; cavity: a chamber of the heart.
(in a canal or the like) the space between any two gates of a lock.
a receptacle for one or more cartridges in a firearm, or for a shell in a gun or other cannon.
(in a gun) the part of the barrel that receives the charge.
chamber pot.

adjective

of, relating to, or performing chamber music: chamber players.

verb (used with object)

to put or enclose in, or as in, a chamber.
to provide with a chamber.

Origin of chamber

1175–1225; Middle English chambre < Old French < Latin camera, variant of camara vaulted room, vault < Greek kamára
Related formsun·der·cham·ber, noun
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British Dictionary definitions for chambered

chamber

noun

a meeting hall, esp one used for a legislative or judicial assembly
a reception room or audience room in an official residence, palace, etc
archaic, or poetic a room in a private house, esp a bedroom
  1. a legislative, deliberative, judicial, or administrative assembly
  2. any of the houses of a legislature
an enclosed space; compartment; cavitythe smallest chamber in the caves
the space between two gates of the locks of a canal, dry dock, etc
an enclosure for a cartridge in the cylinder of a revolver or for a shell in the breech of a cannon
obsolete a place where the money of a government, corporation, etc, was stored; treasury
short for chamber pot
NZ the freezing room in an abattoir
(modifier) of, relating to, or suitable for chamber musica chamber concert

verb

(tr) to put in or provide with a chamber
See also chambers

Word Origin for chamber

C13: from Old French chambre, from Late Latin camera room, Latin: vault, from Greek kamara
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Word Origin and History for chambered
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Medicine definitions for chambered

chamber

[chām′bər]

n.

A compartment or enclosed space.
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