anteroom

[Eng. ante (from Lat.), in compos. before, and Eng. room.] A room before or in front of another one. "An ante-room in the Duke's palace." Shakesp.: Two Gent of Ver., Stage Dir. ăn-těr-ō'ş, s. [Gr. ἀντέρως ( anterōs or An teros) = return-love, love for love. (Personified.) (1) A "god" who avenged slighted love; (2) "god" who struggled against Eros, the personification of love. In Latin anteros signified a kind of amethyst ( Pliny ).] A being poetically imagined to struggle against love. "He who from out their fountain dwellings raised Eros and Anteros , at Gadara. Byron: Manfred, ii. 1.