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anteroom

noun
/ˈæn.ti.ɹʊm/US

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from *(H)rewH-✻ — “to root; to rip, tear”
  2. inherited from *rūmą✻ — “room”
  3. inherited from *rūm✻ — “room”
  4. inherited from rūm — “room, space”
  5. inherited from roum — “room, space”
  6. formed as anteroom — “ante- + room”

Definitions

  1. A room before, or forming an entrance to, another

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

    • [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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for anteroom. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA