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anteroom

[an-tee-room, -room] / ˈæn tiˌrum, -ˌrʊm /


NOUN
foyer
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He wasn’t a man to sit idly in death’s anteroom, awaiting the grim reaper.

From The Wall Street Journal May 13, 2026

One space, the first floor anteroom, is lined with red and gold silk, with centuries-old paintings hanging on the walls and an elaborately decorative fireplace standing beside a huge floor-to-ceiling window.

From BBC Sep. 16, 2025

Elliott notes that a Picasso painting hangs in the anteroom to a prominent political family’s Washington, D.C. bathroom.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 30, 2025

That was just the right amount of space for a receptionist’s anteroom and a windowed office.

From Seattle Times Apr. 23, 2023

We were led out of the elevator through a rococo hall into an anteroom and told to get into our fighting togs.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison




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