How Do You Spell Vestibule

English [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Early 17th century, borrowed from French foyer ( " entrance court " ), from Latin vestibulum ( " forecourt, entrance court; entrance " ), from vestiō ( " to dress, clothe, vest " ) +‎ -bulum ( " identify, location ", nominal suffix ). Doublet of vestibulum.

Pronunciation [edit]

( Received Pronunciation ) IPA^(central): /ˈvɛ.stɪ.bjuːl/
( Full general American ) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛ.stəˌbjul/

Noun [edit]

vestibule (plural vestibules)

( compages ) A pocket-sized vestibule, antechamber, passage, or room between the outer door and the master hall, lobby, or interior of a building. [from the 17th c.]
- 1813, Jane Austen, affiliate 19, in Pride and Prejudice, volume ii:
  
  Lydia's vocalization was heard in the foyer; the door was thrown open, and she ran into the room.
- 1913, Beda Julius Kleinschmidt, "Vestibule", in Cosmic Encyclopedia:
  
  The purpose of the lobby, at least in western Europe, was not to provide a resting-identify for penitents, but to deaden the noise outside.
- 1929 April, H. P. Lovecraft, "The Dunwich Horror", in Weird Tales:
  
  Some instinct warned Armitage that what was taking place was not a thing for unfortified eyes to run into, so he brushed dorsum the crowd with authority equally he unlocked the vestibule door.
1. ( architecture ) A large entrance hall in a temple or palace.
2. ( rail transport ) An enclosed entrance at the end of a railway passenger motorcar.
  - 1912, Electric Railway Journal, volume XL, number 14, page 556:
    
    The exit side of the front end vestibule contains a sliding door.
  - 1960 November, "New electric multiple-units for British Railways: Glasgow Suburban", in Trains Illustrated, page 660:
    
    The units have transverse seats, two and three astride the passageway with single or double longitudinal seats alongside the two entrance vestibules in each car.
( anatomy ) Whatsoever of a number of body cavities or channels, serving equally or resembling an entrance to another actual space. [from the 18th c.]
- 1838, Joseph Garland, "Formation of the Ear", in The Boston Medical and Surgical Periodical‎^[one], volume 17, page 333:
  
  The membrane of the anteroom in this animal is thrown into three folds. The margins of these folds, looking towards the vestibule, are approximated, and, following the constabulary which is now known to regulate the germination of hollow tubes, doubtless unite and coalesce in the next higher species of fish.
- 1920, Jacob Parsons Schaeffer, The Nose, Paranasal Sinuses, Nasolacrimal Passageways, and Nose in Homo: A Genetic, Developmental, and Anatomico-physiological Consideration, folio 73:
  
  The Foyer (vestibulum nasi). — The paired entrance hall may exist considered an lobby to the nasal fossa.
1. 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.
2. The part of the left ventricle beneath the aortic orifice.
3. The part of the mouth exterior the teeth and gums.
  - 2001, René Malek, Cleft Lip and Palate: Lesions, Pathophysiology and Primary Handling, page 79:
    
    The incision of the mucosa over the premaxilla is traced a millimetre or two from the furrow that marks the bottom of the barely-divers vestibule.
4. Clipping of vulval vestibule : the space in the vulva betwixt the labia minora and into which both the urethra and vagina open.

Derived terms [edit]

vestibular
vestibulo-, vestibul-
lobby schoolhouse
vestibule train

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invest
belong
vestment
vesture
clothing

Translations [edit]

small entrance hall before main hall or lobby

Armenian: նախասրահ (hy) ( naxasrah )
Byelorussian: вестыбю́ль chiliad ( vjestybjúlʹ ), перадпако́й grand ( pjeradpakój )
Bulgarian: вестибю́л (bg) chiliad ( vestibjúl ), преддве́рие (bg) northward ( preddvérie )
Catalan: vestíbul (ca) thou
Chinese:

Standard mandarin: 玄關 (zh), 玄关 (zh) ( xuánguān ), 門廳 (zh), 门厅 (zh) ( méntīng ), 前廳 (zh), 前厅 (zh) ( qiántīng )
Czech: předsíň (cs) f
Danish: vestibule c
Dutch: vestibule (nl) m
Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} vestibulo (eo)
Finnish: eteinen (fi), tuulikaappi (fi) ( small vestibule ), eteishalli ( in large buildings ), vestibyyli (fi)
French: antechamber (fr) m
Galician: vestíbulo (gl) one thousand
Georgian: ვესტიბიული ( vesṭibiuli )
German: Windfang (de) m , Vorraum (de) 1000 ; in large buildings: Vorhalle (de) f , Eingangshalle (de) f
Greek:

Ancient: θυρών grand ( thurṓn ), προστάς f ( prostás )
Icelandic: anddyri (is) north , fordyri north , forstofa (is) f , forsalur thou , forbyrgi n

Italian: vestibolo (it) m
Japanese: ロビー (ja) ( robī )
Korean: 로비 (ko) ( robi )
Kurdish:

Northern Kurdish: dalan (ku) f
Latin: vestibulum northward
Norwegian:

Bokmål: vestibyle (no) one thousand

Nynorsk: vestibyle thou
Plautdietsch: Väatus due north
Smooth: hol (pl) m , przedsionek (pl) m , sień (pl) f , przedpokój (pl) thousand , wiatrołap (pl) m , westybul (pl) m
Portuguese: vestíbulo (pt) m
Romanaian: vestibul (ro) n , antreu (ro) northward , hol de intrare n
Russian: вестибю́ль (ru) thou ( vestibjúlʹ ), прихо́жая (ru) f ( prixóžaja ), пере́дняя (ru) f ( perédnjaja )
Slovak: predsieň f
Spanish: vestíbulo (es) m
Swedish: farstu (sv), vestibul (sv)
Ukrainian: вестибю́ль g ( vestybjúlʹ ), передпо́кій (uk) yard ( peredpókij )
Walloon: poice (wa) m

enclosed entrance of a railway passenger car

Verb [edit]

vestibule (tertiary-person singular simple nowadays vestibules, nowadays participle vestibuling, uncomplicated past and past participle vestibuled)

( transitive ) To furnish with a vestibule or vestibules.

Derived terms [edit]

vestibuled

References [edit]

"antechamber", in Lexico, Lexicon.com; Oxford University Printing, 2019–2022.
"vestibule", in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

French [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Borrowed from Latin vestibulum.

Pronunciation [edit]

IPA^(key): /vɛs.ti.byl/

Substantive [edit]

vestibule grand (plural vestibules)

hall, entrance hall
lobby

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veste
vestibulaire

Descendants [edit]