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chamber
(Body), noun aggregation, assemblée, assembly, bench, bench of judges, board, body of judges, cabinet, caucus, collocation, committee, confederacy, conflux, congress, constituency, convocation, council, court, federation, forum, gathering, group, institute, judicial branch, judicial department, law-making body, lawmakers, league, legislative body, legislature, mass, meeting, members of the bar, panel, panel of judges, parliament, plenum, representatives, session, society, tribunal, unionAssociated concepts: chamber of commerce
chamber
(Compartment), noun alcove, antechamber, anteroom, apartment, box, camera, cell, chambre, closet, court, cubicle, cubiculum, den, division, enclosure, hall, hold, hollow, hollow place, lodging, meeting hall, office, parlor, pars interior, partitioned space, reception room, room, salle, section, separate part, sitting room, stall, stateroom, thalamusAssociated concepts: chambers of the court, judicial chammers, legislative chambers
See also: agency, body, commission, committee, congress, panel, parley, session, staff, syndicate, union
CHAMBER. A room in a house.
2. It was formerly hold that no freehold estate could be had in a
chamber, but it was afterwards ruled otherwise. When a chamber belongs to
one person, and the rest of the house with the land is owned by another the
two estates are considered as two separate but adjoining dwelling house's.
Co. Litt. 48, b; Bro. Ab. Demand, 20; 4 Mass. 575; 6 N. H. Rep. 555; 9 Pick.
R. 297; vide 3 Leon. 210; 3 Watts. R. 243.
3. By chamber is also understood the place where an assembly is held;
and, by the use of a figure, the assembly itself is called a chamber.