Chamber vs. Mansion — What's the Difference?

A room in a house, especially a bedroom.

A mansion is a large dwelling house. The word itself derives through Old French from the Latin word mansio "dwelling", an abstract noun derived from the verb manere "to dwell".

A room where a person of authority, rank, or importance receives visitors.

A large, impressive house.

Chambers The private office where the judge consults with parties and conducts business not required to be brought in open court.

A large stately house.

Chambers Chiefly British A suite of rooms, especially one used by lawyers.

A manor house.

A hall for the meetings of a legislative or other assembly.

A dwelling; an abode.

A legislative or judicial body.

A separate dwelling in a large house or structure.

A board or council.

See house.

A place where municipal or state funds are received and held; a treasury.

Any one of the 28 divisions of the moon's monthly path.

An enclosed space or compartment

A large house or building, usually built for the wealthy.

An enclosed space in the body of an organism; a cavity

(UK) A luxurious flat (apartment).

A compartment in a firearm, as in the breech of a rifle or the cylinder of a revolver, that holds the cartridge in readiness for firing.

An apartment building.

An enclosed space in the bore of a gun that holds the charge.

(obsolete) A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.

To put (a round) in the chamber of a firearm.

(obsolete) A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.

To design or manufacture (a firearm) to hold a specific type of cartridge.

(historical) An astrological house; a station of the moon.

To furnish with a chamber or chambers

(Chinese astronomy) One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.

A room or set of rooms, particularly:

An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.)

The private room of an individual, especially of someone wealthy or noble.

Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.

A bedroom.

A dwelling place, - whether a part or whole of a house or other shelter.

The private office of a judge.

The house of the lord of a manor; a manor house; hence: Any house of considerable size or pretension.

The room used for deliberation by a legislature.

A twelfth part of the heavens; a house. See 1st House, 8.

A single law office in a building housing several.

The place in the heavens occupied each day by the moon in its monthly revolution.

Rooms in a lodging house.

To dwell; to reside.

(obsolete) chamber pot a container used for urination and defecation in one's chambers.

(astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided

The legislature or division of the legislature itself.

A large and imposing house

Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.

(biology) An enlarged space in an underground tunnel of a burrowing animal.

(firearms) The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.

(firearms) One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver.

(historical) A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades.

One of the two atria or two ventricles of the heart.

To enclose in a room.

To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.

To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition.

To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber.

(martial arts) To prepare an offensive, defensive, or counteroffensive action by drawing a limb or weapon to a position where it may be charged with kinetic energy.

(obsolete) To be lascivious.

A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.

Apartments in a lodging house.

A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative body or assembly meets; as, presence chamber; senate chamber.

A legislative or judicial body; an assembly; a society or association; as, the Chamber of Deputies; the Chamber of Commerce.

A compartment or cell; an inclosed space or cavity; as, the chamber of a canal lock; the chamber of a furnace; the chamber of the eye.

A room or rooms where a lawyer transacts business; a room or rooms where a judge transacts such official business as may be done out of court.

A chamber pot.

That part of the bore of a piece of ordnance which holds the charge, esp. when of different diameter from the rest of the bore; - formerly, in guns, made smaller than the bore, but now larger, esp. in breech-loading guns.

To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.

To be lascivious.

To shut up, as in a chamber.

To furnish with a chamber; as, to chamber a gun.

A natural or artificial enclosed space

An enclosed volume (as the aqueous chamber of the eyeball or the chambers of the heart)

A room where a judge transacts business

A deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly;

A room used primarily for sleeping

Place in a chamber