vestibule

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A small entrance hall, antechamber, passage, or room between the outer door and the main hall, lobby, or interior of a building.

   Lydia's voice was heard in the vestibule; the door was thrown open, and she ran into the room.

2. 2
   noun

   Any of a number of body cavities or channels, serving as or resembling an entrance to another bodily space.

   The membrane of the vestibule in this animal is thrown into three folds. The margins of these folds, looking towards the vestibule, are approximated, and, following the law which is now known to regulate the formation of hollow tubes, doubtless unite and coalesce in the next higher species of fish.

3. 3
   verb

   To furnish with a vestibule or vestibules.

   The vestibuled platform.

4. 4
   noun

   a large entrance or reception room or area

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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