chamber – English noun declension

English noun forms of chamber

Noun: chamber
Singularchamber
Pluralchambers

Sample Sentences

  • 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. [1845 February, — Quarles [pseudonym; Edgar Allan Poe], “The Raven”, in The American Review, volume I, number II, New York, N.Y.; London: Wiley & Putnam, […], →OCLC, page 143:]
  • A committee of marriageable ladies, or of any Christian persons interested in the propagation of the domestic virtues, should employ a Cruikshank or a Leech, or some other kindly expositor of the follies of the day, to make a series of designs representing the horrors of a bachelor's life in chambers, and leading the beholder to think of better things, and a more wholesome condition. [1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Which Had Very Nearly Been the Last of the Story”, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume II, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 120:]
  • "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." [1946, Elizabeth Metzger Howard, Before the Sun Goes Down, page 31:]
  • The resolution, which speedily passed the Senate, was unable to gain a majority in the lower chamber.
  • A canal lock chamber; a furnace chamber; a test chamber
  • Dianne loaded a cartridge into the chamber of the rifle, then prepared to take aim at the target.

Etymology

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