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Definition of Antechamber
1. Noun. A large entrance or reception room or area.
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
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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