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ves⋅ti⋅bule

[ves-tuh-byool]

noun, verb, -buled, -bul⋅ing.

–noun

1.	a passage, hall, or antechamber between the outer door and the interior parts of a house or building.

2.	Railroads. an enclosed space at the end of a passenger car, serving as a sheltered entrance to the car from another car or from outside the train.

3.	Anatomy, Zoology. any of various cavities or hollows regarded as forming an approach or entrance to another cavity or space, as that of the internal ear.

–verb (used with object)

4.	to provide with a vestibule.

Origin:
1615–25; < L vestibulum forecourt, entrance

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ves·ti·bule (věs'tə-byōōl')

A small entrance hall or passage between the outer door and the interior of a house or building.
An enclosed area at the end of a passenger car on a railroad train.
Anatomy A cavity, chamber, or channel that leads to or is an entrance to another cavity: the vestibule to the ear.

[Latin vestibulum.]

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Vestibule

Ves"ti*bule\, v. t. To furnish with a vestibule or vestibules. --Brander Matthews.

Vestibule

Ves"ti*bule\, n. [L. vestibulum, of uncertain origin: cf. F. vestibule.] The porch or entrance into a house; a hall or antechamber next the entrance; a lobby; a porch; a hall.

Vestibule of the ear. (Anat.) See under Ear.

Vestibule of the vulva (Anat.), a triangular space between the nymph[ae], in which the orifice of the urethra is situated.

Vestibule train (Railroads), a train of passenger cars having the space between the end doors of adjacent cars inclosed, so as to admit of leaving the doors open to provide for intercommunication between all the cars.

Syn: Hall; passage.

Usage: Vestibule, Hall, Passage. A vestibule is a small apartment within the doors of a building. A hall is the first large apartment beyond the vestibule, and, in the United States, is often long and narrow, serving as a passage to the several apartments. In England, the hall is generally square or oblong, and a long, narrow space of entrance is called a passage, not a hall, as in America. Vestibule is often used in a figurative sense to denote a place of entrance. "The citizens of Rome placed the images of their ancestors in the vestibules of their houses." --Bolingbroke

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Language Translation for : vestibule

Spanish: vestíbulo, entrada,

German: die Diele,

Japanese: 玄関

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vestibule

1623, "a porch," later "antechamber, lobby" (1730), from Fr. vestible, from L. vestibulum "forecourt, entrance," of unknown origin.

Main Entry: ves·ti·bule
Pronunciation: 'ves-t&-"byül
Function: noun
: any of various bodily cavities especially when serving as orresembling an entrance to some other cavity or space: as a (1) : the central cavity of the bony labyrinth of the ear (2) : the parts of the membranous labyrinth comprising theutricle and the saccule and contained in the cavity of the bony labyrinth b : the space between the labia minora containing the orifice of the urethra c : the part ofthe left ventricle of the heart immediately below the aortic orifice d : the part of the mouth cavity outside the teeth and gums

vestibule ves·ti·bule (věs'tə-by&oomacr;l')
n.
A cavity, chamber, or channel that leads to or is an entrance to another cavity, especially that of the ear.

vestibule (věs'tə-by

l') Pronunciation Key
An oval cavity in the inner ear that together with the semicircular canals makes up the organ that maintains equilibrium in vertebrates.

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