chamber

Meanings

Noun

• A room or set of rooms, particularly:
• : a container used for urination and defecation in one's chambers.
• The legislature or division of the legislature itself.
• Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.
• An enlarged space in an underground tunnel of a burrowing animal.
• The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.
• One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver.
• A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades.
• One of the two atria or two ventricles of the heart.

Verb

• To enclose in a room.
• To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
• To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition.
• To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber.
• To prepare an offensive, defensive, or counteroffensive action by drawing a limb or weapon to a position where it may be charged with kinetic energy.
• To be lascivious.

Origin

• From Middle English chambre, borrowed from Old French chambre, from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα. camera.