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Definition of Vestibule

1. Noun. A large entrance or reception room or area.

2. Noun. Any of various bodily cavities leading to another cavity (as of the ear or vagina).

Definition of Vestibule

1. n. The porch or entrance into a house; a hall or antechamber next the entrance; a lobby; a porch; a hall.

2. v. t. To furnish with a vestibule or vestibules.

3. n. The porch or entrance into a house; a hall or antechamber next the entrance; a lobby; a porch; a hall.

4. v. t. To furnish with a vestibule or vestibules.

Definition of Vestibule

1. Noun. (architecture) A passage, hall or room, such as a lobby, between the outer door and the interior of a building. ¹

2. Noun. (rail transport) An enclosed entrance at the end of a railway passenger car. ¹

3. Noun. (medicine anatomy by extension) Any of a number of body cavities, serving as or resembling an entrance to another bodily space. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Vestibule

1. [v -BULED, -BULING, -BULES]

Medical Definition of Vestibule

1. The porch or entrance into a house; a hall or antechamber next the entrance; a lobby; a porch; a hall. Vestibule of the ear. 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. Synonym: Hall, passage. 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." Origin: L. Vestibulum, of uncertain origin: cf. F. Vestibule. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Vestibule

vestibular organ vestibular part of vestibulocochlear nerve vestibular root vestibular root of vestibulocochlear nerve vestibular schwannoma vestibular sense vestibular system vestibular vein vestibular veins vestibular window

vestibularis vestibulate vestibule (current term) vestibule of larynx vestibule of mouth vestibule of nose vestibule of omental bursa vestibule of the ear vestibule school vestibule schools

vestibuled vestibules vestibuling vestibulo-

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