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 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 Those who did not fit inside the council chambers watched the meeting livestream in the antechamber. Luis Melecio-Zambrano, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2024 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 The larynx functions like an antechamber to the windpipe, or trachea, with a flap of tissue called the epiglottis keeping food and drink from falling down the windpipe. Kate Golembiewski, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024 See All Example Sentences for antechamber
Recent Examples of Synonyms for antechamber
Noun
  • Elliott notes that a Picasso painting hangs in the anteroom to a prominent political family’s Washington, D.C. bathroom.
    Dina Cheney, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2025
  • Among the several measures is the creation of a 6,200-square-meter anteroom, or a large plaza on Placa Gaudi in front of the basilica.
    Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • There are a multitude of comfy sweatsuits in the world, but none have the fandom of that Spanx AirEssentials lounge set.
    Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 20 Oct. 2025
  • There’s a lounge area with a loveseat and easy chair near the back, seating for eight at the bar, and four two-top tables that came from the George Webb that closed on Oakland Avenue earlier this year.
    Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • At one end of the terrace, a sleek glass-and-brass elevator car emerges from two trap doors inside a discreet glass vestibule, popping up as if out of thin air.
    Katherine McGrath, Architectural Digest, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Past the wrought-iron front doors and a small vestibule, the foyer’s chocolate brown walls are warmly welcoming.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In the halls of Sankofa Sankofa House opens up from Atkinson Avenue, and, once inside, a long hallway runs to the back of the building.
    Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • And yet, through the brown teeth and the raggedy clothing and the indifference of the opposite sex, Tupac found someone within the long gray hallways whose presence would prove life-changing.
    Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As a young endocrinologist in the 1980s, David Klonoff was typically greeted with a full waiting room at the diabetes clinic at the University of California, San Francisco.
    Carrie Arnold, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Running multiple browser tabs or manually refreshing the Magic Key sales page could boot you from the virtual waiting room.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 14 Oct. 2025

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“Antechamber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antechamber. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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