Definition of Chamberlain

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Chamberlain

An officer or servant who has charge of a chamber or chambers.

An upper servant of an inn.

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.

A treasurer or receiver of public money; as, the chamberlain of London, of North Wales, etc.

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Chamberlain Quotations

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
Winston Churchill

Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.
Dennis Rodman

I want to be strong, dominant. Like Wilt Chamberlain.
Shaquille O'Neal

They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know.
Uta Hagen

Richard Chamberlain on The Slipper and the Rose was lovely to work with. He wore the clothes so beautifully and sang his songs so well.
Julie Harris

Towards the end of the Lord Chamberlain's era, when his hold was being loosened, private prosecutions began to happen. A member of staff at the Royal Court ordered to stop the play, and the police were brought in.
Timothy West

I sat backstage and had a beer with Richard Chamberlain, Paul Newman, and Princess Grace.
Christopher Atkins

Lord Chamberlain's readers or controllers, which were a handful of people working directly to him, were a very assorted group of people and some of them tried very hard to be as liberal as they could.
Timothy West

I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.
Douglas Feith

My top three were Jim Brown, Wilt Chamberlain and Bo Jackson.
Dick Schaap

Chamberlain Translations

chamberlain in French is chambellan
chamberlain in German is Kammerherr
chamberlain in Italian is ciambellano
chamberlain in Latin is cubicularius
chamberlain in Swedish is kammarherre

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