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What does chamber mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word chamber? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A room or set of rooms, particularly:
    1. Any individual's private room.
    2. A bedroom.
    3. The private office of a judge.
    4. The room used for deliberation by a legislature.
    5. (Britain) A single law office in a building housing several.
    6. (plural) Rooms in a lodging house.
  2. (obsolete) Clipping of chamber pot: a container used for urination and defecation in one's chambers.
  3. (figuratively) The legislature or division of the legislature itself.
  4. Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.
  5. (firearms) The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.
  6. (firearms) One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver.
  7. (historical) A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades.
Verb
  1. To enclose in a room.
  2. To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
  3. To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition.
  4. To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber.
  5. In martial arts, to prepare an offensive, defensive, or counteroffensive action by drawing a limb or weapon to a position where it may be charged with kinetic energy.
  6. (obsolete) To be lascivious.
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