n. A small room used as an entryway or reception area to a larger room.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See lobby.
n. A space viewed as the outer chamber or the entrance to an interior part.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A chamber or an apartment through which access is had to a principal apartment, and in which persons wait for audience. Formerly also spelled antichamber.
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n. a large entrance or reception room or area
Word Usage
"Of her influence we need no better evidence than the fact that her salon was called the antechamber to the Academie Francaise."