antechamber

Definition of antechambernext
as in anteroom
formal a room placed before and leading into a chief apartment and serving as a waiting area

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Recent Examples of antechamber The energy in the room was part D.M.V., part papal antechamber. Eric Lach, New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2025 The locker rooms and antechambers behind the scenes are drab and plain. Richard Lawson, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025 The cardinals present will then pledge to the new pope, and he will be dressed in the Room of Tears, a small antechamber within the Sistine Chapel. Paolo Armelli, Vogue, 21 Apr. 2025 But for the sake of social history, Miss Manners will try: Boudoir: a bedroom, or antechamber to one, where a lady receives her intimates. Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2024 See All Example Sentences for antechamber
Recent Examples of Synonyms for antechamber
Noun
  • Petzel’s also got Tschabalala Self in the viewing room, and tasty new Seth Price works in the anteroom space.
    Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 15 May 2026
  • Shots were fired in an anteroom that had not an hour before seen thousands of guests, including senior government officials, streaming through.
    Justine McDaniel, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Kids love the age-specific kids' programming, Xbox lounge, Sesame Street characters, and enormous water park, while adults enjoy golf, scuba lessons, and 26 dining options, including casual beach spots and upscale fusion restaurants.
    Chelsea Adams, USA Today, 20 June 2026
  • Perhaps the most popular spot during my time aboard Viking Vesta was the Nordic Spa on Deck 1, with its sauna, steam, snow grotto, tub-and-bucket cold plunge, warming lounges, hot tub, and pool.
    Susan B. Barnes, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2026
Noun
  • Sylvie wants Suzanna to know more about this, but Suzanna herself will not budge from that vestibule.
    Laura Miller, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2026
  • An elevator ascends from the entrance vestibule to the main level, where an open living room flows into a dining area with a separate seating nook and fireplace.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 18 May 2026
Noun
  • The El Cajon detective who edited the video said the man did that several times, lingering between the office hallway and the alley parking lot.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2026
  • Players can make choices — answer the call from Claire (Sink), go out into the hallway, try and get in touch with your superintendent to figure out what’s going on — and depending on those decisions, the game will play out differently.
    Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2026
Noun
  • With no more patients in the waiting room, Dua excuses herself to see Haynes in the OR, where medical resident Lee has begun the procedure.
    Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 8 June 2026
  • The clinic has expanded to include three exam rooms, a parlor, exterior waiting room, office and pharmacy for IMA’s medications.
    Imani Cruzen, Twin Cities, 7 June 2026

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“Antechamber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antechamber. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.

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