anterooms

plural of anteroom
as in lounges
a small room that is connected to a larger room and used as a place for people to wait before going into the larger room

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Noun
  • There are also 13 pools and hot tubs, 11 restaurants and snack bars, and 19 bars and lounges offered on the massive ship.
    — Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2026
  • The 100 Napua rooms come with access to two private lounges serving breakfast, midday bites, and an evening cocktail hour, plus a chef's station and live music on the eighth floor.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The locker rooms and antechambers behind the scenes are drab and plain.
    — Richard Lawson, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • According to the outlet, the fight later moved toward the hallways and the area outside of the elevator.
    — Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Police said the school went into lockdown after officers saw students running down hallways and received reports that someone overheard a comment about a gun.
    — Steve Maugeri, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • And as long as building owners gussy up their lobbies or add some amenities that make sense for the space, like a rooftop terrace, there’s usually a tenant for them.
    — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 18 Sep. 2026
  • According to the American Trucking Associations, a gropu which lobbies for major trucking companies, diesel trucks moved nearly 73% of the nation's cargo freight in 2024, the most recent year for which data is publicly available.
    — Keith Laing, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2026
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“Anterooms.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anterooms. Accessed 24 Sep. 2026.

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