chambre

Noun

chambre (plural chambres)

1. Obsolete spelling of chamber

Anagrams

• becharm, chamber

Etymology

From Old French chambre, cambre, from Latin camera (“room”), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “something with an arched cover: a covered wagon, a covered boat, a vaulted chamber”). Doublet of caméra, a borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɑ̃bʁ/

• audio

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Noun

chambre f (plural chambres)

1. A chamber in its various senses, including:
   • 1876, "C" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 616:

     ...before a in French an original c has the sound sh, and is spelt ch, as in champ (campus), chambre (camera).

   1. A room.
   2. A hotel room.
   3. A bedroom.
   4. A house of a parliament.

Further reading

• “chambre” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French chambre.

Noun

chambre (plural chambres)

1. room; chamber

Alternative forms

• chàmbre (Guernsey)

Etymology

Borrowed from French chambre, from Old French chambre, from Latin camera.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Jersey)

  (file)

Noun

chambre f (plural chambres)

1. (Jersey) bedroom

Noun

chambre c (plural chambres)

1. room (division in a building)

Alternative forms

• cambre
• chanbre
• (Northern) canbre

Etymology

From Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára).

Noun

chambre f (oblique plural chambres, nominative singular chambre, nominative plural chambres)

1. room
2. chamber (of a building)
3. bedroom, sleeping quarters