Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An outer room that opens into another room, often used as a waiting room.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A smaller room before a chief apartment, to which access is had through it; especially, a waiting-room used for the temporary reception of visitors, etc.; an antechamber.
Wiktionary
- n. A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a large entrance or reception room or area
Etymologies
- ante- + room (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This peaceful little oasis of piety and good will might be described as an anteroom of heaven.”
“Over here on this wall of the anteroom is the second door.”
“The anteroom was a small place fitted up like a parlor, at the side of the stage and on a level with it.”
“In the anteroom was the knight in black armor whom Myles had seen from the window.”
“Through a big window-door they could look into a small, grassy court that served as a garden: and opening from the anteroom was a second room much larger, which also gave upon the garden court.”
“The anteroom was a mass of palms, and the idea of the assemblage of the guests in the tropics and their sudden transference to the land of ice was excellently carried out.”
“The first thing which struck him on entering the anteroom was the scent of patchouli, which was very repulsive to him; several tall trunks and coffers were standing there.”
“There was a kind of anteroom in front of the chapel door, and that was what the Companions had cleared.”
“Beyond the door on the landing was a kind of anteroom, decorated with black marble statuary in niches.”
““The key of 'I' will not unlock the door to their meaning—you need a crowbar for that—but will sometimes admit you to a kind of anteroom of suggestion.””
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘anteroom’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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extra room
An add-on to Trivet's list elbow room and Lampbane's list 2BDRM W/VU that tries not to duplicate Trivet's and Lampbane's existing rooms. Virtual, allegorical and proverbial rooms accepted.
scullery, suite, porch, screened porch, breakfast room, atheneum, attic, hall, dressing room, passageway, corridor, fusuma and 126 more...
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Jesse's random
bathos, dragoman, tessellated, escutcheon, eikon, mondaine, basilisk, ciborium, rubric, machicolation, jet, defalcation and 198 more...
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stuff i had to look up for english class
gait, purged, steeped, conspiracy, quaking, excommunication, marvels, disposition, effrontery, indignation, transfixed, befuddled and 8 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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ante-
before; in front
antediluvian, anterior, antebellum, anticipate, antecedent, ante, antechamber, anteroom, antenatal, antedate, antepenultimate, antepenultima and 20 more...
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rare words that might be useful
transmogrify, fastidiousness, interiority, indecorous, procrustean, vociferous, descry, solecism, apogee, progeny, envisage, anteroom and 3 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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my words
interminable, effete, convocation, philistines, malaise, foibles, deputation, anathematized, morass, stalwart, proselytize, abet and 405 more...
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danallison's Words
polysemy, self-reliance, savor, amenities, vintage, proverbial, colloquial, assemblage, ubiquitous, jocular, prosaic, perambulation and 443 more...
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Objects and Things
anteroom, flagon, cocotte, ambry, cloche, pate, vespiary, fricassee, carousal, psoas, tome, aperture and 38 more...
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space place home
a comforting list of words that sing of indoor spaces
home, space, place, room, nook, garret, attic, atelier, studio, bay window, boudoir, wardrobe and 12 more...
Tweets
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dailyword Captain Picard used this word when he wanted to talk to the admiral about what happened to Data. Jun 13, 2012