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
  • Premium and business travelers spend lavishly on hotels, ground transport, lounges, dining and experiences, and book most of that adjacent value somewhere else.
    Somit Goyal, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • And from faculty lounges today comes a gigantic rejection of the Humphrey-to-Obama synthesis.
    David Brooks, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
Noun
  • The locker rooms and antechambers behind the scenes are drab and plain.
    Richard Lawson, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • To that end, the firm drew inspiration from the shapes of farmland structures and conceived a cluster of interconnected buildings that flow from one to another with a series of hallways.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 July 2026
  • Immigrants crowded waiting rooms and spilled into hallways as clerks raced to process around 100 people scheduled for an administrative hearing that morning.
    Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 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
  • One of their organizations, the Friends Council on National Legislation, has offices on Capitol Hill and lobbies for changes in immigration policies.
    Tesfaye Negussie, ABC News, 3 July 2026
  • The hotel lobbies and restaurants are full of people who aren’t staying there.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 June 2026
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“Anterooms.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anterooms. Accessed 10 Jul. 2026.

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