Definition of "chambers" in English

noun

1. (archaic) A set of rooms in a building used as an office or a residential apartment.

2. Chiefly in in chambers: a judge's private office which is used for hearings that do not need to be held in open court.

3. 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.

4. 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”).

5. (British, historical) 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by imaginary lines connecting headlands, over which the Crown asserted exclusive jurisdiction; these have now been superseded by the concept of the territorial sea.

6. A midmorning break at Eton College.

noun

1. plural of chamber

verb

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of chamber