All 6 Uses

anteroom
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Queen of Attolia
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She left the cell and made her way up the many stairs of the palace to her private anteroom.†
Chpt 3 *

anteroom = a room leading to a larger or more important room
The cousins, who idolized the minister of war, increased their attacks on Eugenides, and bad feelings grew until Eddis had moved him out of the boys' dormitory and into the only free room that she could think of, an anteroom to the rarely used palace library.†
Chpt 4
From the doorway to an anteroom, an attendant appeared.†
Chpt 5
In an anteroom to the counsel chamber, Attolia turned to Teleus.†
Chpt 14
He had wanted to ask where she'd come from and what had become of Kamet, who should have been sleeping in the anteroom, but if all she brought was a message, he was willing to hear it.†
Chpt 17
With no anterooms between it and the hallway outside, and with a row of load-bearing pillars dividing the room in two, it was awkwardly sized and located.†
Chpt 21

anterooms = rooms leading to larger or more important rooms

Definitions:

(1) (anteroom)
a room (such as a waiting room) leading to a larger or more important room
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)