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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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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Two young men sat at desks in the anteroom, a television set was turned to news and no moving boxes were in sight.
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Four NNSA staff members briefed Neile Miller, the agency’s acting administrator in 2013, in an anteroom of her office overlooking the Mall that year, Miller recalled.
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I’m left with a sleepy Siamese cat named Coco, a tray of Ciroc vodkas and the black velvet damask wallpaper last owner Robbie Williams chose for the high-ceilinged anteroom.
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A White House lawyer, John Dean, in a deadly, poison monotone, had laid out a bill of particulars that brought the scandal into the anteroom of the Oval Office.
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Ms. Marchese said in an interview this week in an anteroom at the compound, as her team prepared for a series of events marking the one-year anniversary of Prince’s death on Friday.
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Kevin Sweeney, Mattis’s chief of staff, kept the Cotton staffers waiting and declined to invite them into his office, instead meeting with them briefly in the anteroom.
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There, people stood against the walls and sat on the floor, leaving late arrivals to pile into hallways and anterooms.
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First Known Use of anteroom
1668
ANTEROOM Defined for Kids
anteroom
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an·te·room
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Definition of anteroom for Students
:a room used as an entrance to another
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