anteroom
/ˈæn.ti.ɹʊm/
anteroom noun: a room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room.
Noun
anteroom (plural anterooms)
- 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
- Several antique games, such as a skiddles table, occupy an upstairs anteroom.1997, Michael McKenzie, Arrowhead Home of the Chiefs
- Synonyms:
- antechamber, foreroom
anteroom meaning in Tamil and Bengali
anteroom in Tamil
- முன் அறை
anteroom in Bengali
- একটি অপেক্ষা করার ঘর
Synonyms of anteroom
Forms of anteroom
| plural | anterooms |
|---|---|
| alternative form | ante-room |
| alternative form | anti-room |
| alternative form | antiroom |
Origin of anteroom
From ante- + room, as a calque of French antichambre or its model Italian anticamera.
Words that rhyme with anteroom
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- gloom
- home
- presume
- whom
- womb
- resume
- tomb
- abloom
- legume
- loom
- rheum
- backroom
- boardroom
- combe
- coomb
- entomb
- enwomb
- exhume
- flume
- grume
- kaboom
- Khartoum
- neume
- packing room
- shroom
- sloom
- subsume
- absume
- addoom
- barroom
- bitume
- brume
- chum
- cloom
- cwm
- desume
- fixing room
- foredoom
- fwoom
- glume
- illume
- khoum
- locker room
- raying room
- simoom
- spume
- thoom
- toom
Questions about anteroom
- What does anteroom mean?
- Anteroom means a room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room.
- What is anteroom in Tamil?
- Anteroom in Tamil is முன் அறை. See Anteroom meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is anteroom?
- Anteroom is a noun.
- How do you pronounce anteroom?
- Anteroom is pronounced /ˈæn.ti.ɹʊm/ (US).
- What is the plural of anteroom?
- The plural of anteroom is anterooms.
Words near anteroom in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: anteroom (page history and authors); anteroom (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); anteroom (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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