vestibule
IPA: vˈɛstɪbjuɫ
noun
- (architecture) A small entrance hall, antechamber, passage, or room between the outer door and the main hall, lobby, or interior of a building.
- (architecture) A large entrance hall in a temple or palace.
- (rail transport) An enclosed entrance at the end of a railway passenger car.
- (anatomy) 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.
- The part of the left ventricle below the aortic orifice.
- The part of the mouth outside the teeth and gums.
- Clipping of vulval vestibule: the space in the vulva between the labia minora and into which both the urethra and vagina open. [(anatomy) The part of the vulva between the labia minora and the opening of the vagina]
verb
- (transitive) To furnish with a vestibule or vestibules.
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Examples of "vestibule" in Sentences
- The camera cuts to the vestibule.
- The Vestibule is the entry area to the mansion.
- The vestibule is a bony cavity and not a sense.
- There is a Celtic stone in the kirk's vestibule.
- On the north side of the vestibule was a veranda.
- The auditorium's lobby is similar to the vestibule.
- These are additional to the normal vestibule doors.
- Immediately inside the entrance there is a vestibule.
- The oval window is adjacent to the vestibule of the inner ear.
- As you enter, you find a vestibule, which is called the cupola of
- The labyrinth consists of three semicircular canals and the vestibule.
- The vestibule is the common cavity with which all the other portions of the labyrinth connect.
- Even in this strange landscape the vestibule was an impressive display of pink Aswan granite and white alabaster floor.
- After you cross the vestibule, which is dark, you crouch to pass through the low, rock-cut archway by which you enter the tomb.
- Mom looked to me like she was trying to lick her way inside her daughter, through what the Romans called the vestibule of love.
- In an all-the-year country house a vestibule is a necessity as much as in a town house, and the hall should be treated with the dignity a hall deserves, and not as a second living-room.
- STEPHEN C. GIDLEY, AGING-IN-PLAC. C.NTRAC.OR: And then we have the vestibule, which is well lit and heated and then we have the elevator, which is wheelchair accessible and it's also safe to carry up four people.
- East of the vestibule is a large hall, and to the south is the great library, corresponding in size, &c. with the museum of natural history; the small library; rooms for the librarian, for apparatus, and also another large theatre.
- On the right and left of the imposing main vestibule, which is distinguished by the strength and the beauty of its style, lobbies with arched roofs lead to the waiting and dining rooms, the ladies 'rooms, the imperial apartments and the above mentioned meeting hall of the administration.
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