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
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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
  • Amenities included in an Away Spa day pass include robes, slippers and access to locker rooms with steam showers and a relaxation lounge with snacks and drinks.
    Michael Salerno, AZCentral.com, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The popular lounge set comes in 16 colors, including neutrals, bright hues, and several shades of blue.
    Isabel Garcia, PEOPLE, 2 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The vestibules that connect the ticketing entrance with the boarding area also have air conditioning.
    Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • The exhibition will unfold with an introductory sound installation leading into a hallway that introduces six galleries with themes of gothic, psychological, science, slasher, religion and ghosts.
    Pat Saperstein, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Several foods inside the cooler and freezer were missing covers, as were bulk ingredient containers in the dry storage hallway area.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 31 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Danish toymaker has donated 10,000 models of an MRI set — which features an MRI scanner and equipment, plus a waiting room, along with minifigures — to 432 hospitals in 13 countries to ease the worries of children about to undergo an MRI.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
  • 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

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“Antechamber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antechamber. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.

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