1.
[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);
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Vestibule \Ves"ti*bule\, v. t.
To furnish with a vestibule or vestibules. --Brander
Matthews.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
[1913 Webster]
Vestibule of the ear. (Anat.) See under Ear.
Vestibule of the vulva (Anat.), a triangular space between
the nymphae, 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.
[1913 Webster]
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
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
vestibule
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)
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
78 Moby Thesaurus words for "vestibule":
Eustachian tube, access, adit, air lock, antechamber, anteroom,
anvil, approach, auditory apparatus, auditory canal,
auditory meatus, auditory nerve, auditory ossicles, auditory tube,
auricle, basilar membrane, bony labyrinth, cauliflower ear,
cochlea, conch, concha, corridor, drumhead, ear, ear lobe, eardrum,
endolymph, entrance, entrance hall, entranceway, entry, entryway,
external ear, foyer, galilee, gangplank, gangway, hall, hammer, in,
incus, ingress, inlet, inner ear, intake, lobby, lobe, lobule, lug,
malleus, mastoid process, means of access, middle ear, narthex,
opening, organ of Corti, outer ear, oval window, passage,
passageway, perilymph, pinna, portal, portico, propylaeum,
round window, secondary eardrum, semicircular canals, shell,
stapes, stirrup, stoa, threshold, tympanic cavity,
tympanic membrane, tympanum, way, way in