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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

前厅

Pronunciation / Transliteration: qiántīng

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Antechamber/ˈæn.tɪˌtʃeɪm.bər/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"访客们在豪华的前厅里等候接见。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A small room serving as a entryway to a larger or more important room.

    "Visitors waited anxiously in the opulent antechamber before being summoned into the director's office."
  2. 2

    A anatomical or structural cavity preceding another main cavity or organ.

    "The cardiac catheter was guided carefully through the venous antechamber of the heart."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the 17th-century French 'antichambre', combining the Latin prefix 'ante-' (meaning 'before') with the Old French 'chambre' (meaning 'room'). Historically used to describe a waiting room leading to a more important inner apartment or official office.

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