antechamber

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Noun
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an=te=cham=ber

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun antechamber has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

antechambern. [Cf. F. antichambre.].
  •  A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A space viewed as the outer chamber or the entrance to an interior part.  [1913 Webster]
    "The mouth, the antechamber to the digestive canal."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

antechamber, n. a small room leading to a main one.

Etymology
earlier anti-, f. F antichambre f. It. anticamera (as ANTE-, CHAMBER)

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