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antechamber

noun

Definition of antechamber

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 doors open up to an antechamber set with chairs and benches. — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2026 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 The cellar tour starts in an antechamber that guides through the various steps of making Champagne (from harvest to bottling) and also explores how the house’s approach to winemaking has evolved over the past century. — Oset Babür-Winter, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for antechamber

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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

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Another is the contagion risk posed by having an unvaccinated child in a waiting room alongside infants and kids with immunodeficiencies.

— Eric Boodman, STAT, 3 Sep. 2026
The smell of rubber and oil remains in the air, and the sound of workers changing tires combines with music from a DJ inside the shop’s waiting room.

— Michael Wayland, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2026

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