anteroom

• ante-room, anti-room (obsolete), antiroom (obsolete)

From ante- +‎ room, as a calque of French antichambre or its model Italian anticamera.^[1]

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæn.ti.ɹʊm/

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• Rhymes: -uːm

anteroom (plural anterooms)

2. A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room.

   Synonyms: antechamber, foreroom

   • 1919, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 19, in Tarzan the Untamed:

     [T]his was one of the anterooms off the main throneroom in which the king was accustomed to hold court with his entire retinue.

   • 1997, Michael McKenzie, Arrowhead Home of the Chiefs:

     Several antique games, such as a skiddles table, occupy an upstairs anteroom.

   • 2009 December 3, “Editors’ Choice”, in The New York Times Book Review‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 January 2021:

     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.