Definition of Antechamber

1. Noun. A large entrance or reception room or area.

Exact synonyms: Anteroom, Entrance Hall, Foyer, Hall, Lobby, Vestibule
Group relationships: Building, Edifice
Specialized synonyms: Narthex
Generic synonyms: Room

Definition of Antechamber

1. n. A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby.

Definition of Antechamber

1. Noun. A small room used as an entryway or reception area to a larger room. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Antechamber

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Antechamber

anteceded
antecedence
antecedences
antecedency
antecedent
antecedent phrase
antecedent phrases
antecedent sign
antecedently
antecedents
antecedes
anteceding
antecessor
antecessors
antecessour
antechamber (current term)
antechambers
antechapel
antechapels
antechinus
antechoir
antechoirs
antecians
antecipate
antecipated
antecipates
antecipating
antecipation
antecipations

Literary usage of Antechamber

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Life and Work at the Great Pyramid During the Months of January, February by Charles Piazzi Smyth (1867)
"antechamber AND KING'S CHAMBER. GREAT was the physical satisfaction ... In this course, too, at a little space within the north end of the antechamber, ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"The highest spiritual beings, the angels, are in the antechamber, so to speak, of the transcendent Trinity, and have from it and in it their existence and ..."

3. Books and Reading by Roscoe Crosby Gaige, Alfred Harcourt (1908)
"AN antechamber OF GREAT SPIRITS GEORGE GILFILLAN THE speaking silence of a number of books, where, though it were the wide Bodleian or Vatican, ..."

4. The Book Collector's Guide: A Practical Handbook of British and American by Seymour de Ricci (1921)
"... The antechamber. London, printed for private circulation, 1906. 8°. Orange wrapper. See also KELMSCOTT PRESS. TENNYSON (Charles). ..."

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