vestibule
noun · verb
Simple meaning
A large entrance or reception room or area.
Pronunciation
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IPA pronunciation (US)
ˈvɛstɪbjul
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Definition
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noun
architecture
A large entrance or reception room or area
rail transport
An enclosed entrance at the end of a railway passenger car.
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.
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 mouth outside the teeth and gums.
verb
transitive
To furnish with a vestibule or vestibules.
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The central cavity of the bony labyrinth of the ear.
The space between the labia minora containing the orifice of the urethra.
A branch of the internal pudendal artery in females that supplies the bulb of the vestibule.
Fenestra that has the base of the stapes attached to it.
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A gland that opens into the vestibule of the vagina.
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Sense: large entrance or reception room or area
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