VESTIBULE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vestibule mean? 

• VESTIBULE (noun)
  The noun VESTIBULE has 2 senses:

1. a large entrance or reception room or area

2. any of various bodily cavities leading to another cavity (as of the ear or vagina)

  Familiarity information: VESTIBULE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VESTIBULE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large entrance or reception room or area

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

antechamber; anteroom; entrance hall; foyer; hall; lobby; vestibule

Hypernyms ("vestibule" is a kind of...):

room (an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vestibule"):

narthex (a vestibule leading to the nave of a church)

Holonyms ("vestibule" is a part of...):

building; edifice (a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of various bodily cavities leading to another cavity (as of the ear or vagina)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("vestibule" is a kind of...):

bodily cavity; cavity; cavum ((anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vestibule"):

vestibule of the ear (the central cavity of the bony labyrinth of the ear)

vestibule of the vagina (the space between the labia minora containing the orifice of the urethra)

Derivation:

vestibular (relating to the sense of equilibrium)

 Context examples 

The wall facing the inside of the vestibule of the inner ear.

(Inner Wall of the Vestibule, NCI Thesaurus)

Lydia's voice was heard in the vestibule; the door was thrown open, and she ran into the room.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Grant was in the vestibule, and as they stopt to speak to him she found, from Edmund's manner, that he did mean to go with her.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The wall facing the outside of the vestibule of the inner ear.

(Outer Wall of the Vestibule, NCI Thesaurus)

A benign exophytic squamous cell neoplasm with papillary growth that arises from the nasal vestibule.

(Nasal Vestibule Squamous Papilloma, NCI Thesaurus)

The bustle in the vestibule, as she passed along an inner lobby, assured her that they were already in the house.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

An oval, membrane covered opening from the tympanic cavity of the middle ear to the vestibule of the inner ear.

(Fenestra Ovalis, NCI Thesaurus)

It forms the anterior part of the labyrinth, is conical, and is placed almost horizontally anterior to the vestibule.

(Cochlea, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The portion of the ear located within the temporal bone that is involved in both hearing and balance and includes the semicircular canals, vestibule, and cochlea.

(Inner Ear, NCI Thesaurus)

The cavity-like space in the lower portion of the concha that forms the vestibule, leading to the external acoustic meatus.

(Cavum Conchae, NCI Thesaurus)