| 单词 | antechamber |
| 释义 | antechamber (once / 4404 pages) n An antechamber is an entryway or a small room that leads into a larger one. If you visit a friend who lives in a mansion, her butler may ask you to wait in the antechamber while he summons her. You're most likely to come across an antechamber in a very grand building or home — in most houses, a similar room would probably be called a "foyer" or a "hall." Sometimes the area where you wait before entering a museum or office is called an antechamber, but it's more often just a "waiting room." Palaces and crypts and pyramids often have antechambers. The word comes from the French antichambre. WORD FAMILYantechamber: antechambers+/chamber: antechamber, chambered, chambering USAGE EXAMPLESThat happens in small galleries that, like antechambers, flank the main space’s entrance. Los Angeles Times(Nov 02, 2016) After he won, he gave me a secret Oval Office antechamber. Salon(Oct 11, 2016) The condition of singleness, after all, is traditionally understood as a sort of existential antechamber to the Valhalla of marriage, or of otherwise “settling down.” Slate(Oct 07, 2016) n a large entrance or reception room or area Syn|Hypo|Hyper anteroom, entrance hall, foyer, hall, lobby, vestibule narthex a vestibule leading to the nave of a church room an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling |
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