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Vestibule
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- 1 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 a large entrance or reception room or area wordnet
- 3 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.
- 4 any of various bodily cavities leading to another cavity (as of the ear or vagina) wordnet
- 5 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.
"The exit side of the front vestibule contains a sliding door."
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- 6 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."
- 7 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.
- 8 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.
- 9 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.
"The incision of the mucosa over the premaxilla is traced a millimetre or two from the furrow that marks the bottom of the barely-defined vestibule."
- 10 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. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
"She spread her labia further, both sets of lips protecting the vestibule, the delicate area between them."
- 1 To furnish with a vestibule or vestibules. transitive
"the vestibuled platform"
Etymology
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.
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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