noun
- a passage, hall, or antechamber between the outer door and the interior parts of a house or building.
- Railroads. an enclosed space at the end of a passenger car, serving as a sheltered entrance to the car from another car or from outside the train.
- Anatomy, Zoology. any of various cavities or hollows regarded as forming an approach or entrance to another cavity or space, as that of the internal ear.
verb (used with object), ves·ti·buled, ves·ti·bul·ing.
- to provide with a vestibule.
noun
- a small entrance hall or anteroom; lobby
- any small bodily cavity or space at the entrance to a passage or canal
1620s, “a porch,” later “antechamber, lobby” (1730), from French vestible, from Latin vestibulum “forecourt, entrance,” of unknown origin.
n.
- A cavity, chamber, or channel that leads to or is an entrance to another cavity, especially that of the ear.
- An oval cavity in the inner ear that together with the semicircular canals makes up the organ that maintains equilibrium in vertebrates.