Definition of chamber

• n. - A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.
• n. - Apartments in a lodging house.
• n. - A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative body or assembly meets; as, presence chamber; senate chamber.
• n. - A legislative or judicial body; an assembly; a society or association; as, the Chamber of Deputies; the Chamber of Commerce.
• n. - A compartment or cell; an inclosed space or cavity; as, the chamber of a canal lock; the chamber of a furnace; the chamber of the eye.
• n. - A room or rooms where a lawyer transacts business; a room or rooms where a judge transacts such official business as may be done out of court.
• n. - A chamber pot.
• n. - That part of the bore of a piece of ordnance which holds the charge, esp. when of different diameter from the rest of the bore; -- formerly, in guns, made smaller than the bore, but now larger, esp. in breech-loading guns.
• n. - A cavity in a mine, usually of a cubical form, to contain the powder.
• n. - A short piece of ordnance or cannon, which stood on its breech, without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for rejoicings and theatrical cannonades.
• v. i. - To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
• v. i. - To be lascivious.
• v. t. - To shut up, as in a chamber.
• v. t. - To furnish with a chamber; as, to chamber a gun.