Definitions
a large entrance or reception room or area
Word origin
From ante- + room, as a calque of French antichambre or its model Italian anticamera.
Used in a sentence
“[T]his was one of the anterooms off the main throneroom in which the king was accustomed to hold court with his entire retinue.”
“Several antique games, such as a skiddles table, occupy an upstairs anteroom.”
“These stories take on pulp fiction’s sensational subjects. But episodes of murder, suicide and adultery turn out to be just anterooms to an echo chamber filled with subtle and far-reaching thematic reverberations.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Waiting area”8 letters
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