anteroom
a waiting room.
Origin of anteroom
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How to use anteroom in a sentence
Conversation at these delicate entertainments was like the conversations overheard in the anterooms of private asylums.
Sinister Street, vol. 1 | Compton MackenzieThe galleries were crowded with intellect, beauty, and fashion, and the anterooms were also thronged.
Charles Sumner; his complete works, volume 5 (of 20) | Charles SumnerNot succeeding, we sat and conversed with each other and the many friends who crowded the platform and anterooms.
Eighty Years And More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 | Elizabeth Cady StantonAnd better yet, however long we talk to them, no other friends will be kept waiting in the anterooms, longing to take our place.
The World's Best Books | Frank ParsonsLast evening the aisles were double-seated, and the anterooms, staircases and vestibules densely packed with standing hearers.
The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) | Ida Husted Harper
British Dictionary definitions for anteroom
/ (ˈæntɪˌruːm, -ˌrʊm) /
a room giving entrance to a larger room, often used as a waiting room
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