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# anteroom

«anteroom» in Mova's school dictionary: **A small room you go through before you reach a bigger room** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (anterooms)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A small room you go through before you reach a bigger room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anteroom/#m1)

2) (old use) A waiting room outside a grand room, where people wait to see an important person. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anteroom/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

the small room before the main hall, where people wait or leave their coats, as in many tales

### examples

- We waited in the anteroom before the king saw us. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anteroom/#x1)
- Coats hung on hooks in the anteroom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anteroom/#x2)
- The guard stood at the door of the anteroom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anteroom/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «anteroom» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anteroom/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.