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• n  a large entrance or reception room or area

• Shelley Thomas, 53, was wheeled into an anteroom at London's Middlesex Hospital in preparation for pelvic surgery.
• In an anteroom of the Vatican one morning this week waited two Roman Catholic prelates, Monsignor Eugne Tisserant and Monsignor Giovanni Mercati, while in the nearby .
• Once at the gym, Reagan and the four unscheduled candidates went into an anteroom to decide how to proceed.

• antechamber
• entrance hall
• hall
• foyer
• lobby
• vestibule

News & Articles

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• 'The Butler': Viewing black history from the White House
  The first images in Lee Daniels' The Butler are of an elderly black man in a White House anteroom, wearing a suit, sitting upright, flanked by a U.S. flag and a Marine - and of two black men, dead, hanging from nooses somewhere in the South.
  Aug. 16, 2013 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

Quotes

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• David Petraeus in Wall Street Journal (blog)
  I pointed out that the committee provides water,Petraeus joked. "And I do thank the committee as well for the chocolate chip cookies that were in the anteroom before the session."
• Ernie Davis in ESPN
  According to a Web site chronicling the history of Elmira, Davis described the meeting this way: "We're standing in the anteroom talking when the doors open and here comes the president. He walked up and introduced himself, 'Hi, I'm Jack Kennedy.'...