[after Fr. antichambre or It. anticamera.] A room before, or forming an entrance to, another.
1762. H. Walpole, Vertue’s Anecd. Paint. (1786), II. 200. An anti-room at St. James’s.
1854. Bancroft, Hist. U.S. (1876), VI. xli. 239. His ante-rooms were thronged with clients of all sorts.
1858. Sears, Athan., III. x. 338. Whatever our place, if we are doing its work well, it is the anteroom of heaven.
