Chamberlain: Definition and part of speech

Chamberlain

  1. n. A treasurer or receiver of public money; as, the chamberlain of London, of North Wales, etc.
  2. n. An officer or servant who has charge of a chamber or chambers.
  3. n. An upper servant of an inn.
  4. n. An officer having the direction and management of the private chambers of a nobleman or monarch; hence, in Europe, one of the high officers of a court.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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