Thesaurus results for ANTECHAMBER

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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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

Definition of anteroom

Noun

Because some of my earliest departures happen before my neighborhood coffee shop or even the airport lounge opens, caffeine is a non-negotiable.

— Jacqueline Dole, Travel + Leisure, 16 July 2026
The staff will also be able to direct you to a more peaceful place in the lounge.

— R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 16 July 2026

Definition of lounge

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Though his tail was wagging, the dog immediately bounded down the hallway toward an officer, who fired his service pistol four times, killing the dog.

— Paige St. John, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026
Finally, at the far end of the hallway, on the opposite side of the home to the living room, is the bedroom.

— Adam Williams July 04, New Atlas, 4 July 2026

Definition of hallway

Noun

The station’s restored Great Hall serves simultaneously as waiting room, meeting place and grand public lobby, filled with soaring windows, leather seating, restaurants and bars.

— David Hochman, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
In that letter, a section of which was read aloud in court, the writer recounted going to the office and opening fire, seeing three people in the waiting room on his right and four on the left.

— Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2026

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