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antichamber

antichamber is the obsolete form of antechamber.

Meaning of antechamber

Noun

antechamber (plural antechambers)

  1. A small room used as an entryway or reception area to a larger room.
    • Who knows. Perhaps the Ark is still waiting in some antechamber for us to discover. Perhaps there's some vital bit of evidence which eludes us. Perhaps…1981, Lawrence Kasdan, Raiders of the Lost Ark, spoken by Belloq
    Synonyms:
    anteroom, foreroom
  2. The space immediately below the guard cells of a stoma.

Forms of antichamber

pluralantichambers

Origin of antichamber

From Middle French antichambre. By surface analysis, anti- (“before”) + chamber.

Questions about antichamber

What is antichamber the obsolete form of?
Antichamber is the obsolete form of antechamber.

Words near antichamber in the dictionary

  1. antichafe
  2. antichafing
  3. antichagasic
  4. antichain
  5. antichains
  6. antichamber
  7. antichambers
  8. antichance
  9. antichange
  10. antichaos
  11. antichaotic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: antichamber (page history and authors); antechamber (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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