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 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 In the antechamber to the main gallery, a pair of curiosity cabinets — a convention popular in the salons of wealthy Victorians to display the sparkly plunder brought home from the colonies — stand side by side, one by Gardner, and the other by Saar. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Feb. 2023 See All Example Sentences for antechamber
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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
  • Kansas City could soon allow lounges where marijuana use is allowed on site as the concept continues to emerge in Missouri.
    Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Sandals Ochi Located in Ocho Rios, Sandals Ochi offers a mix of beachfront and hillside accommodations, plus a wide range of restaurants and bars, including a speakeasy-style lounge.
    Gina Pace, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Her idea was to clip the corner of the room, creating a vestibule with cast glass and antique brass frames.
    Keith Flanagan, Architectural Digest, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Gear that didn’t fit inside went into the 45-square-foot front vestibule, which doubled as a lounge during a brief evening rainstorm.
    Jenny Wiegand, Outside, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Six federal officers were in the hallway waiting to arrest him on an immigration warrant.
    John Diedrich, jsonline.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • There’s one shot of the hallway that shows the Kings live at Penthouse B — the second-best penthouse.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This book’s rightful home is in the waiting room of a child psychologist’s office, where it should be presented in the same spirit with which Dum-Dums are left in a dentist’s reception area.
    Sloane Crosley, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Back on the 20th floor, dozens of immigrants, court observers, federal agents and journalists lingered in the waiting room and halls.
    Ximena Bustillo, NPR, 25 Aug. 2025

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“Antechamber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antechamber. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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