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antiroom

antiroom 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 antiroom

pluralantirooms

Origin of antiroom

From anti- (“before”) + room.

Questions about antiroom

What is antiroom the obsolete form of?
Antiroom is the obsolete form of anteroom.

Words near antiroom in the dictionary

  1. antiromance
  2. antiromances
  3. antiromantic
  4. antiromanticism
  5. antiromantics
  6. antiroom
  7. antirooms
  8. antirotating
  9. antirotation
  10. antirotaviral
  11. antirotavirus

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