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ante-room

ante-room is the alternative form of anteroom.

Meaning of anteroom

Noun

anteroom (plural anterooms)

  1. 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.1919, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 19, in Tarzan the Untamed

Forms of ante-room

pluralante-rooms

Questions about ante-room

What is ante-room the alternative form of?
Ante-room is the alternative form of anteroom.

Words near ante-room in the dictionary

  1. ante-Mosaic
  2. ante-Nicene
  3. ante-port
  4. ante-ports
  5. ante-post
  6. ante-room
  7. ante-rooms
  8. ante-up
  9. ante-upping
  10. anteact
  11. anteacts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ante-room (page history and authors); anteroom (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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