chamberとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English chambre, borrowed from Old French chambre, from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “vaulted chamber”). Doublet of camera.

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃeɪmbə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃeɪmbɚ/
• 韻: -eɪmbə(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: cham‧ber

名詞

chamber (複数形 chambers)

1. A room or set of rooms, particularly:
   1. The private room of an individual, especially of someone wealthy or noble.
      • 1845, Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven,

        Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

        Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,

        While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

        As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

   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. (dated, usually in the plural) Rooms in a lodging house.
      • 1848 November – 1850 December​, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I または II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], OCLC 2057953:

        ...a bachelor's life in chambers...

2. A chamberpot.
   • 1946, Elizabeth Metzger Howard, Before the Sun Goes Down, page 31:

     "Jesus Christ! Was my folks refined. My mam she wouldn't think-a lettin' us young'uns call a pee pot a pee pot. A chamber's what she called it... And by God! Us young'uns had ter call the pee pot a chamber or git our God damn necks wrang."

3. (figurative) The legislature or division of the legislature itself.

   The resolution, which speedily passed the Senate, was unable to gain a majority in the lower chamber.

4. Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.

   A canal lock chamber; a furnace chamber; a test chamber

5. (biology) An enlarged space in an underground tunnel of a burrowing animal.
6. (firearms) The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.

   Dianne loaded a cartridge into the chamber of the rifle, then prepared to take aim at the target.

7. (firearms) One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver.
8. (historical) A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades.
9. One of the two atria or two ventricles of the heart.
10. (obsolete) Clipping of chamber pot: a container used for urination and defecation in one's chambers.

同意語

• (chamber pot): See Thesaurus:chamber pot

派生語