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antechamber Definition

ante·cham·ber (antē c̸hām′bər, -ti-)

noun

a smaller room leading into a larger or main room

Etymology: Fr antichambre < anti- (for L ante, before) + chambre, chamber

antechamber Usage Examples

Converse of subject

  • generate: The format of pdb files generated by antechamber using the flag " -o pdb " is correct.

Converse of object

  • use: Can it be the reason why I am getting the above error message while using antechamber?
  • enter: Description On arrival, six visitors at a time enter a small antechamber.
  • have: Inside they had an antechamber, a nave with raised benches along the walls, and a sanctuary with altars and the tauroctony.

Adjective modifier

  • small: Description On arrival, six visitors at a time enter a small antechamber.
antechamber Quotes

   To begin with, I was born with an unreasonably large stock of relations, who have increased and multiplied ever since. My aunts and uncles were legion, and my cousins as the sands of the sea without number. Consequently, even a low death-rate meant, in the course of mere natural decay, a tolerably steady supply of funerals for a by no means affectionate but exceedingly clannish family to go to. Add to this that the town we lived in, being divided in religious opinion, buried its dead in two great cemeteries, each of which was held by the opposite faction to be the ante- chamber of perdition, and by its own patrons to be the gate of paradise.

—Shaw, George Bernard

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