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anti-room

anti-room is the obsolete 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 anti-room

pluralanti-rooms

Origin of anti-room

From anti- (“before”) + room.

Questions about anti-room

What is anti-room the obsolete form of?
Anti-room is the obsolete form of anteroom.

Words near anti-room in the dictionary

  1. anti-riot
  2. anti-rocker
  3. anti-rockers
  4. anti-roll bar
  5. anti-roll bars
  6. anti-room
  7. anti-rooms
  8. anti-rust
  9. anti-rusts
  10. anti-Samaritanism
  11. anti-satellite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anti-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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