Definitions for vestibule

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vestibule ves·ti·bule

Spelling: [ves-tuh-byool]

IPA: /ˈvɛs təˌbyul/

Vestibule is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 322 anagrams from letters in vestibule (beeilstuv).

Definitions for vestibule

noun

1. a passage, hall, or antechamber between the outer door and the interior parts of a house or building.
2. 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.
3. 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)

1. to provide with a vestibule.

Origin of vestibule

First recorded in 1615-25, vestibule is from the Latin word vestibulum forecourt, entrance

Examples for vestibule

Then, on entering the vestibule, he saw something that he had never seen before.

We were within the vestibule before he had begun to toll the years.

This is a building divided into a nave and aisles and with a vestibule.

The ten names on the boxes in the vestibule meant nothing to him.

In the vestibule I met the negro; I seized him by the collar and demanded my room.

We passed the vestibule, and at the door his own carriage was waiting.

Thereupon Morange showed his guest into the vestibule as if he were ushering him into a temple.

Our progress from the vestibule to the stairs was a slow one.

In the vestibule he slipped a half-crown into the attendant's hand.

Surely there were voices in animated discussion in the vestibule!