Anteroom

/ˈæntəɹˌuːm/

/ˈæntɚɹˌuːm/

Anteroom

a small room or space positioned before a larger or more significant room

Examples

1. In a big anteroom you took your place.

2. I want to welcome all of you, and I want to welcome the people in the anterooms, as well, watching this.

3. And that electronic voting with machines similar to ATMs was going to be the anteroom to Internet voting.

4. And I’m in that little anteroom with Hope, and there’s some people coming in and out.