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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
antechamber
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An antechamber may be built on to the main egg-chamber.
▪ In addition to which, Kenamun had taken care to keep them waiting an hour in an unventilated antechamber before seeing them.
▪ Outside this office was a smaller room, little more than an antechamber.
▪ Paradise it was not; but at least it resembled something like its antechamber.
▪ Such places are the antechamber to the penitentiary.
▪ The antechamber which he entered was filled with silent N'pani.
▪ The housekeeper showed them into an antechamber bleak as a dentist's waiting-room.
▪ Two female slaves were tending a small fire in a brazier in the antechamber, and when Burun entered they veiled themselves.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Antechamber

Antechamber \An"te*cham`ber\, n. [Cf. F. antichambre.]

  1. A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby.

  2. A space viewed as the outer chamber or the entrance to an interior part.

    The mouth, the antechamber to the digestive canal.
    --Todd & Bowman.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
antechamber

1650s, from French antichambre (16c.), on analogy of Italian anticamera (see ante and chamber).

Wiktionary
antechamber

n. A small room used as an entryway or reception area to a larger room.

WordNet
antechamber

n. a large entrance or reception room or area [syn: anteroom, entrance hall, hall, foyer, lobby, vestibule]

Wikipedia
Antechamber

An antechamber (also known as an anteroom or ante-room) is a smaller room or vestibule serving as an entryway into a larger one. The word is formed of the Latin ante camera, meaning "room before".

In some cases, an antechamber provides a space for a host to prepare or conduct private business away from a larger party or congregation. In a theme park, an antechamber may be used to tell guests about a ride before they experience it.

Usage examples of "antechamber".

Theido and Oswald left the antechamber, shutting the door quietly behind them.

Gorloic, and laying a hand to his hilt he rushed forward through the antechamber and into the gatehouse, his friends coming hard on his heels.

Her anger sustained and kept her head erect and her spine straight as she walked into the antechamber and shut the door.

They darted inside the shattered door and found themselves in an antechamber that had probably once served as an office for this warehouse, lit by a pair of gas fixtures above the fireplace.

A small antechamber to the world-cavern, a recent budding Dancer had never before entered.

Within moments, a startled palace guard appeared at the antechamber door, pausing uncertainly at the obvious calm within.

I had always liked this room, which was an antechamber to the two beyond, where the main work of our Diwan was conducted.

Thus dismissed, I left at once, this time not passing through the antechamber but stepping directly out into the passage, which followed the line of the wall facing towards the city.

The place of Assembly was an antechamber of the palace, adjoining the main hall.

When we were esconced in the antechamber, not much more was said among us and I took this to mean they had agreed among themselves to follow my instructions.

The voices rose behind us, only to be cut off as the door to the antechamber shut.

I waited before the fire in the antechamber, anxious for news, wondering what Keir was going to do.

They emerged from the antechamber, bearing the shrouded body, only to dump it before Keir.

I will take you to an antechamber where you can make yourselves comfortable.

Pshing went out into an antechamber and returned with a Big Ugly named Ludwig Bieberback.