[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/chamber.html)

[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/) / chamber

[← C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/C/)

# chamber

«chamber» in Mova's school dictionary: **A room, especially a large one used for a special purpose…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a chamber, chambers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A room, especially a large one used for a special purpose (council chamber). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chamber/#m1)

2) (old) A bedroom or private room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chamber/#m2)

3) A closed space inside the body, a machine or a plant (the heart has four chambers). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chamber/#m3)

4) A group of lawmakers, such as one house of a parliament. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chamber/#m4)

5) Chambers (UK): a judge's or lawyers' offices. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chamber/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In science: the chambers of the heart, a cave chamber, a combustion chamber. In history and stories: the king's chamber, a secret chamber. In civics: the upper and lower chambers of parliament. Phrases: chamber music (for a small group), echo chamber.

### examples

- The heart has four chambers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chamber/#x1)
- Explorers found a hidden chamber in the pyramid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chamber/#x2)
- The queen rested in her chamber. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chamber/#x3)
- The council meets in the town chamber. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chamber/#x4)
- Chamber music is played by a small group. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chamber/#x5)
- The cave opened into a huge chamber. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chamber/#x6)
- And he followed Luned to the chamber of her mistress. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chamber/#x7)

### note

Pronounced CHAME-ber (rhymes with «danger»). Plural: chambers. «Chamber pot» is an old pot for a toilet at night.

### In the corpora

- [No real animal breathes fire; the bombardier beetle sprays a nearly boiling chemical mix from a tough chamber at attackers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards/5/)
- [A cow's stomach has four chambers, an alpaca's three.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres/3/)
- [When a huge eruption empties the magma chamber, the ground above can collapse into a giant crater called a caldera.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/46-volcanoes-how-and-where/16/)
- [And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting by himself alone in his cool upper chamber.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.81/)
- [Then Ehud went forth into the porch, and shut the doors of the upper chamber upon him, and locked them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.85/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «chamber» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chamber/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.