chamber

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  1. noun A room in a house, especially a bedroom.
  2. noun A room where a person of authority, rank, or importance receives visitors.
  3. noun A room in which a judge may consult privately with attorneys or hear cases not taken into court.
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  • The presiding officer of the chamber is the Speaker of the House, elected by the Representatives. —  White House.gov Agenda Articles Feed
  • Martin O'Malley, the chamber was a model of civility and temperance when it finished tweaking legislation to restrict the criteria for the use of capital punishment.
  • In the chamber is his rocket and various other craft looking vehicles. —  Comic Book Movie
  • One of the first items of business in a new Congress in either chamber is the passage of an organizing resolution. —  morons.org headlines
  • In the middle of the chamber was a giant metal throne that Piccolo uses to control the Dragonballs. —  Comic Book Resources
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  1. Middle English chaumbre, from Old French chambre, from Late Latin camera, chamber, from Latin, vault, from Greek kamarā.

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  1. Early modern English also chaumber, Scots chalmer, etc.; from Middle English chamber, chambre, chaumbre, from Old French chambre, cambre, modern F. chambre = Provencal cambra = Spanish Portuguese camara = Italian camera = Dutch kamer = Old High German chamara, Middle High German kamere, kamer, German kammer = Danish kammer = Swedish kammare, a chamber, room, from Middle Latin camera, a chamber, room, from Latin camera, camara, a vault, an arched roof, an arch, from Greek καμάρα, anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault: see camera and camber.
  2. from chamber, n.
 

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