vestibule.
A small entrance hall, antechamber, passage, or room between the outer door and the main hall, lobby, or interior of a building.
Meaning & usage
A small entrance hall, antechamber, passage, or room between the outer door and the main hall, lobby, or interior of a building.
A small entrance hall, antechamber, passage, or room between the outer door and the main hall, lobby, or interior of a building. A large entrance hall in a temple or palace.
A small entrance hall, antechamber, passage, or room between the outer door and the main hall, lobby, or interior of a building. An enclosed entrance at the end of a railway passenger car.
Any of a number of body cavities or channels, serving as or resembling an entrance to another bodily space.
Any of a number of body cavities or channels, serving as or resembling an entrance to another bodily space. The central cavity of the bony labyrinth of the inner ear or the parts (such as the saccule and utricle) of the membranous labyrinth that it contains.
Any of a number of body cavities or channels, serving as or resembling an entrance to another bodily space. The part of the left ventricle below the aortic orifice.
Any of a number of body cavities or channels, serving as or resembling an entrance to another bodily space. The part of the mouth outside the teeth and gums.
Any of a number of body cavities or channels, serving as or resembling an entrance to another bodily space. Clipping of vulval vestibule: the space in the vulva between the labia minora and into which both the urethra and vagina open.
Where this word comes from
Early 17th century, borrowed from French vestibule (“entrance court”), from Latin vestibulum (“forecourt, entrance court; entrance”), from vestiō (“to dress, clothe, vest”) + -bulum (“place, location”, nominal suffix). Doublet of vestibulum.
To furnish with a vestibule or vestibules.
Where this word comes from
Early 17th century, borrowed from French vestibule (“entrance court”), from Latin vestibulum (“forecourt, entrance court; entrance”), from vestiō (“to dress, clothe, vest”) + -bulum (“place, location”, nominal suffix). Doublet of vestibulum.
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