anteroom.

A small room leading to a larger or more important room, often used for waiting.

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Words that belong together

• waiting anteroom
• small anteroom

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The visitors waited in the anteroom.

A small anteroom led to the hall.

The secretary opened the anteroom door.

Usage notes

Primary category: architecture. Forms: Singular anteroom; plural anterooms. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.