vestibule

Meanings

Plural: vestibules

Noun

• a large entrance or reception room or area
• any of various bodily cavities leading to another cavity (as of the ear or vagina)
• 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.
• A small entrance hall, antechamber, passage, or room between the outer door and the main hall, lobby, or interior of a building.
• 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.
• Any of a number of body cavities or channels, serving as or resembling an entrance to another bodily space.

Verb

• To furnish with a vestibule or vestibules.

Synonyms

antechamber, anteroom, entrance hall, foyer, hall, lobby

Related Words

invest, vest, vestment, vesture, wear