as in anterooms
formal
a room placed before and leading into a chief apartment and serving as a waiting area
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Recent Examples of antechambers
The locker rooms and antechambers behind the scenes are drab and plain.
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Richard Lawson, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
Richard Lawson, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for antechambers
Noun
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Perhaps the most popular spot during my time aboard Viking Vesta was the Nordic Spa on Deck 1, with its sauna, steam, snow grotto, tub-and-bucket cold plunge, warming lounges, hot tub, and pool.—
Susan B. Barnes,
Travel + Leisure,
20 June 2026
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Early legalization attempts, such as clinical consumption lounges, largely failed to create authentic social environments, mistakenly trying to force cannabis into existing molds.—
Peter Su,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
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Beyond that there are long hallways with white tile floors and white walls that lead to rooms full of loud machines taking in, transforming and distributing large amounts of electricity throughout the building.—
David Wade,
CBS News,
18 June 2026
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For days afterward, parent volunteers patrolled Tavares Middle hallways, their sense of safety shattered.—
Steven Walker,
The Orlando Sentinel,
17 June 2026
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From pre-war apartment building vestibules to farmhouse bathrooms to kitchen backsplashes, penny tiles have graced spaces of all kinds since their inception in the early twentieth century.—
Heather Bien,
The Spruce,
8 Mar. 2026
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Police have blocked the ATM lanes off with yellow crime scene tape, and multiple agencies, including Dallas police and Texas Rangers, can be seen searching the area around the open vestibules.—
Elissa Jorgensen,
Dallas Morning News,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Antechambers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antechambers. Accessed 22 Jun. 2026.
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