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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

VES'TIBULE, n. [L. vestibulum.]
1. The porch or entrance into a house, or a large open space before the door, but covered. Vestibules for magnificence are usually between the court and garden.
2. A little antechamber before the entrance of an ordinary apartment.
3. An apartment in large buildings, which presents itself into a hall or suit of rooms or offices. An area in which a magnificent staircase is carried up is sometimes called a vestibule.
4. In anatomy, a cavity belonging to the labyrinth of the ear.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a large entrance or reception room or area [syn: anteroom, antechamber, entrance hall, hall, foyer, lobby, vestibule]
2: any of various bodily cavities leading to another cavity (as of the ear or vagina)

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Latin vestibulum forecourt Date: 1726 1. a. a passage, hall, or room between the outer door and the interior of a building ; lobby b. an enclosed entrance at the end of a railway passenger car 2. any of various bodily cavities especially when serving as or resembling an entrance to some other cavity or space: as a. the central cavity of the bony labyrinth of the inner ear or the parts (as the saccule and utricle) of the membranous labyrinth that it contains b. the part of the left ventricle below the aortic orifice c. the space between the labia minora containing the orifice of the urethra d. the part of the mouth cavity outside the teeth and gums 3. a course that offers access (as to something new) • vestibuled adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a an antechamber, hall, or lobby next to the outer door of a building. b a porch of a church etc. 2 US an enclosed entrance to a railway-carriage. 3 Anat. a a chamber or channel communicating with others. b part of the mouth outside the teeth. c the central cavity of the labyrinth of the inner ear. Derivatives: vestibular adj. Etymology: F vestibule or L vestibulum entrance-court

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(vestibules) A vestibule is an enclosed area between the outside door of a building and the inside door. (FORMAL) = entrance hall N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Porch, entrance-way. 2. Hall, lobby, ante-room, passage.

Moby Thesaurus

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