antechamber

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 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 Those who did not fit inside the council chambers watched the meeting livestream in the antechamber. Luis Melecio-Zambrano, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2024 But for the sake of social history, Miss Manners will try: Boudoir: a bedroom, or antechamber to one, where a lady receives her intimates. Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2024 The larynx functions like an antechamber to the windpipe, or trachea, with a flap of tissue called the epiglottis keeping food and drink from falling down the windpipe. Kate Golembiewski, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024 See All Example Sentences for antechamber
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Noun
  • Elliott notes that a Picasso painting hangs in the anteroom to a prominent political family’s Washington, D.C. bathroom.
    Dina Cheney, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2025
  • Among the several measures is the creation of a 6,200-square-meter anteroom, or a large plaza on Placa Gaudi in front of the basilica.
    Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • At each lounge, Plank was sure to take full advantage of the food and drink offerings.
    Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The upper-deck sky lounge, considered the family room, is a great example.
    Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The vestibules that connect the ticketing entrance with the boarding area also have air conditioning.
    Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
  • At one end of the terrace, a sleek glass-and-brass elevator car emerges from two trap doors inside a discreet glass vestibule, popping up as if out of thin air.
    Katherine McGrath, Architectural Digest, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • During a soft lockdown, the school’s teachers are asked to check the hallways for staff and students before locking doors and windows.
    Daniel S. Levine, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Patients still receive care in hallways and wait hours or even days to be admitted.
    Dr. Bryce Pulliam, Time, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As a young endocrinologist in the 1980s, David Klonoff was typically greeted with a full waiting room at the diabetes clinic at the University of California, San Francisco.
    Carrie Arnold, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Running multiple browser tabs or manually refreshing the Magic Key sales page could boot you from the virtual waiting room.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 14 Oct. 2025

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“Antechamber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antechamber. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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