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chambers

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Meaning

  1. noun A set of rooms in a building used as an office or a residential apartment.
  2. noun Chiefly in in chambers: a judge's private office which is used for hearings that do not need to be held in open court. Originally, a set of rooms at an Inn of Court used by one or more barristers as an office and residence; now, the office of one or more barristers in any building.
  3. noun Chiefly in in chambers: a judge's private office which is used for hearings that do not need to be held in open court.
  4. noun Originally, a set of rooms at an Inn of Court used by one or more barristers as an office and residence; now, the office of one or more barristers in any building.
  5. noun Euphemistic form of chamber pot (“a container used for defecation and urination”); also, synonym of potty (“a small (chiefly plastic) pot used by children for defecation and urination when toilet-training”).
  6. noun In full king's chambers: parts of the sea next to the coast of England and Wales delimited by imaginary lines connecting headlands, over which the Crown asserted exclusive jurisdiction; these have now been superseded by the concept of the territorial sea.
  7. noun A midmorning break at Eton College.
  8. noun plural of chamber

Similar words

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Word family

Chambers Robert Chambers

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