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Chamber

noun

A natural or artificial enclosed space.

An enclosed volume in the body.

A room where a judge transacts business.

A deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly.

A room used primarily for sleeping. Synonyms: bedchamber, bedroom, sleeping accommodation, sleeping room.

verb

(past & past part. chambered; pres. part. chambering)

Place in a chamber.

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"Chamber" Quotes from Famous Books

... in all the outfit, and with that in the chamber of his rifle, once more struck south. Spruce trees began to show on the barrens and caribou trails roused hope in ...

— The Last of the Plainsmen • Zane Grey

... life in a great city finds herself frequently confronted with the necessity of having four servants—a cook, a laundress, a waiter or parlor-maid (sometimes both), and a chamber-maid. None of these excellent auxiliaries is willing to do the other's work: they generally quarrel. So the first experience of house-keeping is not agreeable. But it is possible to find two servants who, if properly ...

— Manners and Social Usages • Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

... said, in a choking voice. Then she turned without another word and went out of the room, up-stairs to her own little chamber. When there she sat down beside the window. She did not think. She did not seem to feel her hands and feet. It was as if she had fallen from a height. The realization that her father and his new wife wanted ...

— By the Light of the Soul - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... barrier between them; not the barrier of social position or wealth; that, he knew, could be overcome; but the barrier he had builded himself, in the reckless, wasted years. And then and there the strong young man fought a battle in the secret chamber of his own soul; fought a battle and won; putting from himself forever, as he believed, the dreams he had dared to dream in the lonely evening ...

— That Printer of Udell's • Harold Bell Wright

... desires are kept at bay. Art is truth: and truth is religion: and its study and practice a daily work of pious duty. What are the world's struggles, brawls, successes, to that calm recluse pursuing his calling? See, twinkling in the darkness round his chamber, numberless beautiful trophies of the graceful victories which he has won:—sweet flowers of fancy reared by him:—kind shapes of beauty which he has devised and moulded. The world enters into the artist's studio, and scornfully bids ...

— The Newcomes • William Makepeace Thackeray

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