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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

AN'TECHAMBER, n. [Ante, before, and chamber.]
A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment to which it leads, and in which persons wait for audience.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a large entrance or reception room or area [syn: anteroom, antechamber, entrance hall, hall, foyer, lobby, vestibule]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: French antichambre, from Middle French, from Italian anti- (from Latin ante-) + Middle French chambre room Date: 1655 anteroom

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a small room leading to a main one. Etymology: earlier anti-, f. F antichambre f. It. anticamera (as ANTE-, CHAMBER)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Antechamber An"te*cham`ber, n. [Cf. F. antichambre.] 1. A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby. 2. A space viewed as the outer chamber or the entrance to an interior part. The mouth, the antechamber to the digestive canal. --Todd & Bowman.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

also ante-chamber(antechambers) An antechamber is a small room leading into a larger room. = anteroom N-COUNT