transcription, транскрипция: [ tʃeɪmbə(r) ]
( chambers)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A chamber is a large room, especially one that is used for formal meetings.
We are going to make sure we are in the council chamber every time he speaks.
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2.
You can refer to a country’s parliament or to one section of it as a chamber .
More than 80 parties are contesting seats in the two-chamber parliament...
Signor Amato’s government has only a 16-seat majority in the Chamber of Deputies.
= house
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3.
A chamber is a room designed and equipped for a particular purpose.
For many, the dentist’s surgery remains a torture chamber.
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see also gas chamber