🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

cámara de oficiales

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ˈka.ma.ɾa ðe o.fiˈθja.les

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Gun-room/ˈɡʌn.ruːm/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #28500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Los oficiales subalternos cenaron en la cámara."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A room on a warship that serves as the mess and social quarters for junior officers.

    "The newly commissioned sub-lieutenant reported to the gun-room for dinner."
  2. 2

    A room in a large private residence used for storing sporting guns and hunting equipment.

    "He spent the afternoon cleaning his shotguns in the estate's gun-room."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the combination of 'gun' (Middle English, referencing artillery) and 'room' (Old English 'rūm', meaning space or chamber). Historically originating in the 17th century aboard warships, it initially designated the compartment where small arms were kept and where the gunner resided, later evolving into the messroom for junior naval officers.

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