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antechamber
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun antechamber has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
antechamber, n. [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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