different between vestibule vs anteroom

English

Etymology

Early 17th century, borrowed from French vestibule (“entrance court”), from Latin vestibulum (“forecourt, entrance court; entrance”), from vesti? (“to dress, clothe, vest”) +? -bulum (“place, location”, nominal suffix). Doublet of vestibulum.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?v?.st?.bju?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?v?.st??bjul/

Noun

vestibule (plural vestibules)

1. (architecture) An antechamber, passage, hall or room between the outer door and the interior of a building. [from the 17th c.]

   Synonym: lobby

   1. (rail transport) An enclosed entrance at the end of a railway passenger car.
3. (anatomy) Any of a number of body cavities or channels, serving as or resembling an entrance to another bodily space. [from the 18th c.]
   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 below the aortic orifice.
   3. The part of the mouth outside the teeth and gums.
   4. Clipping of vulval vestibule: the space in the vulva between the labia minora and into which both the urethra and vagina open.

Derived terms

• vestibular
• vestibulo-, vestibul-
• vestibule school
• vestibule train

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Verb

vestibule (third-person singular simple present vestibules, present participle vestibuling, simple past and past participle vestibuled)

1. (transitive) To furnish with a vestibule or vestibules.

Derived terms

• vestibuled

References

• “vestibule”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “vestibule”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vestibulum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?s.ti.byl/

Noun

vestibule m (plural vestibules)

1. hall, entrance hall
2. vestibule

Related terms

• veste

Further reading

• “vestibule” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Alternative forms

• ante-room

Etymology

ante- +? room

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?æn.ti.??m/

Noun

anteroom (plural anterooms)

1. A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room.

Synonyms

• antechamber
• foreroom

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