CHAMBERLAIN

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• CHAMBERLAIN (noun)
  The noun CHAMBERLAIN has 3 senses:

1. British statesman who as Prime Minister pursued a policy of appeasement toward fascist Germany (1869-1940)

2. the treasurer of a municipal corporation

3. an officer who manages the household of a king or nobleman

  Familiarity information: CHAMBERLAIN used as a noun is uncommon.

• CHAMBERLAIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

British statesman who as Prime Minister pursued a policy of appeasement toward fascist Germany (1869-1940)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Arthur Neville Chamberlain; Chamberlain; Neville Chamberlain

Instance hypernyms:

national leader; solon; statesman (a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The treasurer of a municipal corporation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("chamberlain" is a kind of...):

financial officer; treasurer (an officer charged with receiving and disbursing funds)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An officer who manages the household of a king or nobleman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("chamberlain" is a kind of...):

steward (someone who manages property or other affairs for someone else)

 Context examples 

You gave him a cool nod, and just now you bowed and smiled in the politest way to Tommy Chamberlain, whose father keeps a grocery store.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

At last the princess agreed, but she told her chamberlain to give the prince a sleeping draught, that he might not hear or see her.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Also called Chamberlain procedure.

(Anterior mediastinotomy, NCI Dictionary)

The general came into the same opinion; so that for a long time there was a majority against you; but his majesty resolving, if possible, to spare your life, at last brought off the chamberlain.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

His chamberlain and cardinals came forth, as I remember, to ask whether we would take seven thousand crowns with his blessing and a plenary absolution, or the ten thousand with his solemn ban by bell, book and candle.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And the chamberlain told him all—how he had given him a sleeping draught, and how a poor maiden had come and spoken to him in his chamber, and was to come again that night.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

This lord, in conjunction with Flimnap the high-treasurer, whose enmity against you is notorious on account of his lady, Limtoc the general, Lalcon the chamberlain, and Balmuff the grand justiciary, have prepared articles of impeachment against you, for treason and other capital crimes.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Then the princess thought to betray her as before, and agreed to what she asked: but when the prince went to his chamber he asked the chamberlain why the wind had whistled so in the night.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The king was much delighted with my company, and ordered his bliffmarklub, or high-chamberlain, to appoint a lodging in the court for me and my interpreter; with a daily allowance for my table, and a large purse of gold for my common expenses.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)