1. A natural or artificial enclosed space
   "The divers explored an underwater chamber in the cave system"
    
2. An enclosed volume in the body
   "the chambers of his heart were healthy"
    
3. A room where a judge transacts business
   "The judge retired to his chambers to consider the verdict"
    
4. A deliberative, legislative, administrative or judicial assembly
   "the upper chamber is the senate"
    
5. A room used primarily for sleeping
   "They painted their chamber a soothing shade of blue";
   - bedroom, sleeping room, sleeping accommodation, bedchamber [archaic]
    
6. (modifier) of or for music written for a small ensemble
   "They performed chamber music in the hall"
    
7. The part of a firearm that holds the ammunition and charge
   "He loaded the bullet into the chamber"

1. Place in a chamber
   "The musician chambered a round in his revolver-shaped guitar"

Derived forms: chambered, chambering, chambers

Type of: assembly, bodily cavity, cavity, cavum, domiciliate [rare], enclosure, house, put up, room

Part of: abode, domicil [rare], domicile, dwelling, dwelling house, habitation, home

Encyclopedia: Chamber, John