bicameral
/bʌɪˈkaməɹəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.28 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Being or having a system with two, often unequal, chambers or compartments; of, signifying, relating to, or being the product of such a two-chambered system.
adj
Of a script or typeface: having two cases, upper case and lower case.
adj
Relating to the functions of the two cerebral hemispheres in the history of human beings ‘hearing’ the speech of gods or idols, according to Julian Jaynes's theory of the bicameral mind.
Example Sentences
- "the bicameral anatomy of the brain"
- "By preventing legislative usurpation in the beginning, the bicameral legislature avoids executive usurpation in the end."
- "The legislature (Standeversammlung) is bicameral — the constitution of the co-ordinate chambers being finally settled by a law of 1868 amending the enactment of 1831."
- "Once the Senate votes, aides said, the first order of business in the bicameral talks will be to set an overall dollar figure […]."
- "Aspect values on bicameral fonts are based on the size of the lowercase characters."
- "Bicameral (upper- and lowercase) unserifed roman fonts were apparently first cut in Leipzig in the 1820s."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Italic *dwi- Latin bi-bor. English bi- Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em-der. Proto-Indo-Iranian *kmáratider. Proto-Iranian *kamarāder. Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára)bor. Latin camera English -al English bicameral From bi- + Latin camera (“chamber”) + English -al.
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /bʌɪˈkaməɹəl/