antechamber

Definition of antechambernext
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 doors open up to an antechamber set with chairs and benches. — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2026 The locker rooms and antechambers behind the scenes are drab and plain. — Richard Lawson, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025 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 The cellar tour starts in an antechamber that guides through the various steps of making Champagne (from harvest to bottling) and also explores how the house’s approach to winemaking has evolved over the past century. — Oset Babür-Winter, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for antechamber
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Noun
  • Petzel’s also got Tschabalala Self in the viewing room, and tasty new Seth Price works in the anteroom space.
    — Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 15 May 2026
  • Shots were fired in an anteroom that had not an hour before seen thousands of guests, including senior government officials, streaming through.
    — Justine McDaniel, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Building amenities include an outdoor pool and hot tub, a sky lounge, a golf simulator, a cinema, a fitness center with steam and sauna rooms, Tesla house vehicles and a dog lounge with an indoor run.
    — Saleema Syed, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
  • In the center of the lounge there’s an imposing green marble bar—a tribute to the celebrated Italian architect Piero Portaluppi—that serves as the focal point of the space.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Surrounding that vestibule would be a sports bar with TVs and a game room with pool tables, ping pong tables and more, said Kemph.
    — Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
  • But step into the vestibule and the Bruin’s movie-star appeal becomes harder to miss.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 20 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • New York — Down a dim, crooked hallway inside the Jay Street Lofts, a hulking brick relic of Brooklyn’s industrial past, Naomi Mishkin is conducting a radical fashion experiment.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Further down the hallway, on the opposite side of the house from the living room, is the master bedroom.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Guests will enter a waiting room until the host lets them in and guests can be removed from the call at any time.
    — Stevie Bonifield, The Verge, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Pharmaceutical media grew up around the moments that could be accessed, including the physician in the exam room and the patient in the waiting room.
    — Harshit Jain, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026

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“Antechamber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antechamber. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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