anteroom
noun
-ˌru̇m\
Definition of anteroom
: a small outer room that leads to another room and that is often used as a waiting room
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Fred is super patronizing to the women in the chamber anteroom. — Rena Gross, Billboard, "'The Handmaid's Tale': Season 2, Episode 13 Recap: 19 Startling Moments in 'The Word'," 11 July 2018 Others are in small anterooms outside courtrooms, chatting with colleagues or preparing with prosecutors. — Chris Palmer, Philly.com, "Philly cops waiting to testify in court cost city millions in OT," 3 Apr. 2018 The suit selection is vast, with racks stretching farther and farther back, until the $5,000 Brionis, which, like men’s mink coats, hang in a semiprivate anteroom. — Steven Kurutz, New York Times, "The Last Great Clothing Store," 29 Mar. 2018 In January, The Republic's website, azcentral.com, posted video of Saucedo in a small anteroom to his cell in a maximum security unit of the Fourth Avenue Jail. — Michael Kiefer, azcentral, "Attorneys for 'Street Shooter' suspect want to nix death penalty over jailhouse videos," 16 Mar. 2018 In an anteroom at the right women had been stripped and exposed to the gaze of brutal men. — Jonathan W. White, Smithsonian, "When Emancipation Finally Came, Slave Markets Took on a Redemptive Purpose," 27 Feb. 2018 My family would not live in that anteroom of unknowable anguish. — Maryoconn, Longreads, "Writing the Monsignor," 18 Sep. 2017 The anteroom branches into two exit routes: a stairway and a narrow corridor leading to an elevator lobby. — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, "The surreal spectacle of Capitol Hill reporters pressing senators for useless information.," 29 June 2017 In the hospital anteroom, I am brought before a ponytailed and hugely pregnant triage nurse seated in her station at the threshold of the ER, like Gabriel at the gate. — Joanna Petrone, Longreads, "Pregnant, then Ruptured," 18 Aug. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'anteroom.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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anteroom
noun
-ˌru̇m\
Kids Definition of anteroom
: a room used as an entrance to another
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