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Definition of Anteroom
1. Noun. A large entrance or reception room or area.
Group relationships: Building, Edifice
Specialized synonyms: Narthex
Generic synonyms: Room
Definition of Anteroom
1. n. A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room.
Definition of Anteroom
1. Noun. A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Anteroom
1. a waiting room [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anteroom
Literary usage of Anteroom
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tuscan Cities by William Dean Howells (1885)
"we returned to the anteroom ; she borrowed her husband's handkerchief, lightly
blew her nose with it, and tucked it back in his breast pocket. XXXVII. ..."
2. East of the Jordan: A Record of Travel and Observation in the Countries of by Selah Merrill (1881)
"From east to west the wall can be distinctly traced one thousand and fifty feet,
and it probably extended anteroom Connected with the Theatre at Bozrah. in ..."
3. The Court of the Tuileries from the Restoration to the Flight of Louis Philippe by Catherine Charlotte Jackson (1897)
"The anteroom of the Opera-house.— The Closing Scene. JHE Due d'Orleans and his
family returned to France in February, 1817. He was received by the king with ..."
4. Memoir and Correspondence of Eliza P. Gurney by Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney (1884)
"... a few observations I had made upon it, and when we went into the anteroom, to
my surprise, I found it filled,—between fifty and sixty persons present. ..."
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