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.
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Others are in small anterooms outside courtrooms, chatting with colleagues or preparing with prosecutors.
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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.
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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.
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In an anteroom at the right women had been stripped and exposed to the gaze of brutal men.
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My family would not live in that anteroom of unknowable anguish.
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The anteroom branches into two exit routes: a stairway and a narrow corridor leading to an elevator lobby.
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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.
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First Known Use of anteroom
1668
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Definition of anteroom for Students
: a room used as an entrance to another
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