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anteroom

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Buildings
an·te·room /ˈæntɪrʊm, -ruːm/ noun [countable]  TBBa small room that is connected to a larger room, especially where people wait to go into the larger room 〔通往较大房间的〕前室,外室,接待室 SYN antechamber
Examples from the Corpus
anteroomGeorge Gardiner and Alfred Sherman sat in an anteroom ready at an instant to do her bidding.There was an anteroom and an empty office on the other side of the disused primate facility.Once-grand anterooms had been partitioned off.He found himself in the semidarkness of a sort of anteroom.The two men rose and went through the minister's anteroom into his main office.The five-person group shared a single room, with a small anteroom to the side.He rose from his desk and went through the anteroom into Shirley's office.
an·te·room nounChineseSyllable
to that room a is small Corpus connected


anteroom
anteroom /ˈæntɪrʊm, -ruːm/ noun [countable]
a small room that is connected to a larger room, especially where people wait to go into the larger room
   SYN  antechamber


ante·roomBrE /ˈæntiruːm/ 🔊NAmE /ˈæntiruːm/ 🔊BrE /ˈæntirʊm/ 🔊NAmE /ˈæntirʊm/ 🔊 (also formal ante·cham·ber) nouna room where people can wait before entering a larger room, especially in an important public building (尤指重要公共建筑的)前厅,接待室