What is another word for antechamber?

Pronunciation: [ˈantɪt͡ʃˌe͡ɪmbə] (IPA)

An antechamber is a room typically used as a waiting area or entranceway before entering a larger room. However, there are various other words that can be used to describe an antechamber or similar area. For instance, a vestibule, foyer, entrance hall, lobby, or reception area can all function as an antechamber. Depending on the context, one might also use the words ante-room, waiting room, or hallway. Essentially, any space used as an initial area before entering a larger room can be considered an antechamber, and there are numerous synonyms to describe this type of space.

Synonyms for Antechamber:

What are the hypernyms for Antechamber?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • hypernyms for antechamber (as nouns)

What are the hyponyms for Antechamber?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.
  • hyponyms for antechamber (as nouns)

What are the holonyms for Antechamber?

Holonyms are words that denote a whole whose part is denoted by another word.

What are the opposite words for antechamber?

Antechamber is a room or a hall that serves as a waiting area and a transitional space to access larger rooms, such as a reception room or a main hall. Some antonyms for this word include exit, entrance, vestibule or hallway. While antechambers are usually spacious and comfortable, exits just lead outside or to another room without any waiting area, while entrances are merely a doorway or a threshold to a room. On the other hand, vestibules are often smaller and less comfortable, acting more as an entry point, whereas hallways are long narrow spaces leading to different rooms.

What are the antonyms for Antechamber?

Usage examples for Antechamber

Whoever had occupied that antechamber must have overheard not only all that had been spoken, but have seen each speaker in turn-in short, every individual present, and under a light clear enough to have rendered sure their identification.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid
But she could wait in some antechamber until the ten minutes passed and then bring Nona safely back to their lodging place.
"The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army"
Margaret Vandercook
Almost immediately after they were again standing outside in the big antechamber.
"The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army"
Margaret Vandercook

Famous quotes with Antechamber

  • All the Hellenistic States had thus been completely subjected to the protectorate of Rome, and the whole empire of Alexander the Great had fallen to the Roman commonwealth just as if the city had inherited it from his heirs. From all sides kings and ambassadors flocked to Rome to congratulate her; they showed that fawning is never more abject than when kings are in the antechamber...w:Polybius dates from the battle of Pydna the full establishment of the universal empire of Rome. It was in fact the last battle in which a civilized state confronted Rome in the field on a footing of equality with her as a great power; all subsequent struggles were rebellions or wars with peoples beyond the pale of the Romano-Greek civilization -- with barbarians, as they were called. The whole civilized world thenceforth recognized in the Roman senate the supreme tribunal, whose commissions decided in the last resort between kings and nations; and to acquire its language and manners foreign princes and youths of quality resided in Rome. A clear and earnest attempt to get rid of this dominion was in reality made only once -- by the great Mithradates of Pontus. The battle of pydna, moreover, marks the last occasion on which the senate still adhered to the state-maxim that that they should, if possible, hold no possessions and maintain no garrisons beyond the Italian seas, but should keep the numerous states dependent on them in order by a mere political supremacy. The aim aim of their policy was that these states should neither decline into utter weakness and anarchy, as had nevertheless happened in Greece nor emerge out of their half-free position into complete independence, as Macedonia had attempted to do without success. No state was to be allowed to utterly perish, but no one was to be permitted to stand on its own resources... Indications of a change of system, and of an increasing disinclination on the part of Rome to tolerate by its side intermediate states even in such independence as was possible for them, were clearly given in the destruction of the Macedonian monarchy after the battle of Pydna, the more and more frequent and more unavoidable the intervention in the internal affairs of the petty Greek states through their misgovernment, and their political and social anarchy, the disarming of Macedonia, where the Northern forntier at any rate urgently required a defence different from that of mere posts; and, lastly, the introduction of the payment of land-tax to Rome from Macedonia and Illyria, were so many symptoms of the approaching conversion of the client states into subjects of Rome.
    Theodor Mommsen
  • Other men used their effete faiths and mean faculties with a high moral purpose. The Venetian gave the most earnest faith, and the lordliest faculty, to gild the shadows of an antechamber, or heighten the splendours of a holiday.
    John Ruskin
  • The midwife bustled out to the four in the antechamber and announced that the Almighty (who had recently become a Protestant) had seen fit to bless milady with a son.
    Brian Aldiss

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