Meaning

3 senses

  1. A senior royal official in charge of superintending the arrangement of domestic affairs and often charged with receiving and paying out money kept in the royal chamber, especially in the United Kingdom and in Denmark.

    Kammerherr, Kämmerer

    камерге́рkamergér

    камерге́рkamerhér

  2. A high officer of state, as currently with the papal camerlengo, but normally now a mainly honorary title.

  3. (obsolete)An upper servant of an inn.

More definitions
  • an officer who manages the household of a king or nobleman
  • the treasurer of a municipal corporation
  • British statesman who as Prime Minister pursued a policy of appeasement toward fascist Germany (1869-1940)

Examples

1 sentences

  1. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was forced to resign.

    ruБританский премьер Невилл Чемберлен был вынужден уйти в отставку.

    deDer britische Premierminister Neville Chamberlain wurde zum Rücktritt gezwungen.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
an officer in charge of managing the household of a sovereign:
Русский
By meaning 1
an officer in charge of managing the household of a sovereign:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
an officer in charge of managing the household of a sovereign:

Origin

From Middle English chamberlein, chaumberlein, chaumberleyn, from Anglo-Norman chamberlenc

From Middle English chamberlein, chaumberlein, chaumberleyn, from Anglo-Norman chamberlenc, Old French chamberlayn, chamberlenc (“chamberlain”), from Frankish *kamarling (“chamberlain”), equivalent to *kamer (“chamber”) + *-ling (“-ling”). Cognate with Old High German chamarling (“chamberlain”). Compare also Late Latin camerārius and comrade. More at chamber, -ling.

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Forms

plural: chamberlains
Singularchamberlain
Pluralchamberlains

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

6 related words
Relatedroyal household
Derivedarchchamberlainchamberlaincychamberlainrychamberlainshipunderchamberlain

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
challengeA2challengerchamberchambermaidchameleonchamois
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