chambers

Meanings

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by imaginary lines connecting headlands, over which the Crown asserted exclusive jurisdiction; these have now been superseded by the concept of the territorial sea.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

1. plural of chamber

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of chamber

1. A surname.
2. A township in Temagami municipality, Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada.
3. An unincorporated community in Apache County, Arizona.
4. A township and village therein, in Holt County, Nebraska.
5. An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia.
6. Ellipsis of Chambers County.

Etymology

From chamber + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum and regular plurals of nouns, and the third-person singular simple present indicative forms of verbs).