ANTEROOM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does anteroom mean? 

• ANTEROOM (noun)
  The noun ANTEROOM has 1 sense:

1. a large entrance or reception room or area

  Familiarity information: ANTEROOM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANTEROOM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large entrance or reception room or area

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

antechamber; anteroom; entrance hall; foyer; hall; lobby; vestibule

Hypernyms ("anteroom" is a kind of...):

room (an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "anteroom"):

narthex (a vestibule leading to the nave of a church)

Holonyms ("anteroom" is a part of...):

building; edifice (a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place)

 Context examples 

She sits in her own little office, and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers and sees whether she has anything which would suit them.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As she arranged her table that morning, while the little girls were in the anteroom filling the baskets, she took up her pet production, a little book, the antique cover of which her father had found among his treasures, and in which on leaves of vellum she had beautifully illuminated different texts.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He did not soon forget the reproachful glance Amy gave him, as she went, without a word to anyone, straight into the anteroom, snatched her things, and left the place forever, as she passionately declared to herself.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Roaring noon. In a well-fanned Forty-second Street cellar I met Gatsby for lunch. Blinking away the brightness of the street outside my eyes picked him out obscurely in the anteroom, talking to another man.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)