anteroom
Space before entry
An anteroom is a small room serving as an entryway to a larger or more important one—a waiting area before the main space.
Visitors might wait in an anteroom before being admitted to an office or audience chamber: She sat nervously in the anteroom outside the director's office.
The word suggests formal or institutional settings.
Enclosed space between doors
- foyerBuilding's entrance room
- lobbyEntryway or influence-seeking
- receptionAct of receiving guests
- hallInterior connecting pathway
chamber · parlor · salon · atrium · cloakroom · passageway · corridor · portico
Preliminary section or presentation
- preliminaryBefore the main part
- prefaceIntroductory book section
- precursorSomething that comes first
- prologueIntroductory literary section
lead-in · opening · overture · preamble · forerunner · harbinger · threshold · stepping-stone
Passage into a room
ingress · access · transition · boundary · interface · limen · buffer · demarcation
vestibule
Enclosed space between doors
hall · chamber · parlor · salon · atrium · cloakroom · passageway · corridor · portico · entryway
introduction
Preliminary section or presentation
- preliminaryBefore the main part
- prefaceIntroductory book section
- precursorSomething that comes first
prologue · lead-in · opening · overture · preamble · forerunner · harbinger · threshold · stepping-stone
doorway
Passage into a room
passage · ingress · access · transition · boundary · interface · limen · buffer · demarcation · checkpoint
queue
Ordered waiting line
- patienceCalm during delays
- anticipationState of awaiting something
- appointmentScheduled time for something
delay · pause · standby · suspense · reception · usher · greeter · check-in · holding · limbo
- "ante-" wordsantecedent, antepartum, antemortem, antediluvian, antedate
- building partsfacades, wall, door, windows, floor
- grand interiorsballroom, banquet hall, grand staircase, foyer, lobby
- home spaceskitchen, bathroom, basement, attic, hallway
- office spacesoffice, office building, cubicles, private office, open office
- roomsbathroom, kitchen, basement, attic, closet
anteroommain room
inner chamber · back room · destination · sanctum · main hall
anteroommain hall
Primary gathering space
great hall · throne room · audience chamber · central hall · main office