| 单词 | anteroom |
| 释义 | anteroom (once / 4055 pages) n An anteroom is a small room or entryway leading to a larger area. You might wait with a tour group in an anteroom before beginning your tour of a castle. You can use the word anteroom as a fancy, old-fashioned way to say "waiting room" or "vestibule." Museum visitors might pause in an anteroom before entering a large gallery, and the butler in an old movie might say, "Please wait in the anteroom." Another word for an anteroom is an antechamber — in fact the French root of both is antichambre, from the Latin anticamera, "room in front." WORD FAMILYanteroom: anterooms+/room: anteroom, roomed, roomer, roomette, roomful, rooming, rooms, roomy/roomer: roomers/roomette: roomettes/roomful: roomfuls/rooms: roomss/roomy: roomier, roomies, roomiest, roomily, roominess USAGE EXAMPLESIn an adjacent anteroom, there’s a stationary bike, 15-pound weights, a multipurpose fitness tower and a TRX suspension trainer hanging on the door. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) To get up there, you check in with a host stationed at “ground control,” a candlelit anteroom off the lobby. Seattle Times(Dec 15, 2016) In an anteroom, old maps reflect the region’s shifting frontiers and masters. The New Yorker(Dec 04, 2016) n a large entrance or reception room or area Syn|Hypo|Hyper antechamber, 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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