different between vestibule vs salutatory

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

Related terms

Translations

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

Adjective

salutatory (comparative more salutatory, superlative most salutatory)

1. Characteristic of or relating to a salutation or greeting.

   a salutatory oration; a salutatory editorial

   • 1659, David Dickson, An Exposition of All St. Pauls Epistles Together with an Explanation of Those Other Epistles of the Apostles St. James, Peter, John & Jude, London: Francis Eglesfield, “The First Epistle General of Peter,” Chapter 1, p. 287,^[1]

     In the benediction, or salutatory prayer, he wishes for encrease and multiplication of the effects of Divine favour towards them […]

   • 1894, John Burroughs, “Spring Jottings” in Riverby, Boston: Hougton Mifflin, p. 162,^[2]

     The first sloop comes lazily up on the flood tide, like the first butterfly of spring; the little steamer, our river omnibus, makes her first trip, and wakes the echoes with her salutatory whistle, her flags dancing in the sun.

   • 1989, David Foster Wallace, “Luckily the Account Representative Knew CPR” in Girl with Curious Hair, New York: Norton, p. 48,^[3]

     […] the Account Representative was choosing words neither dismissive nor inviting, neither terse nor intrusive; he was composing a carefully casual face, narrowing salutatory options toward a sort of landlocked “Halloo” that contained already an acknowledgement of distance and an easy willingness to preserve same.

   • 2018, Scott Jaschik (quoting Joey King), “Should Presidents Hug?” Inside Higher Ed, 19 February, 2018,^[4]

     King said that he knows "plenty of huggers, male and female, who are presidents and provosts." He said that they "tend to overdo it, in my opinion. My advice would be to stick with more professional salutatory behavior but for exceptional circumstances."

Usage notes

Not to be confused with salutary (“affecting or designed to affect an improvement”).

Noun

salutatory (plural salutatories)

2. (chiefly US) A greeting; an address, speech or article of greeting; the first editorial by the new editor of a newspaper or periodical; an introduction or preface.

   She was chosen to deliver the salutatory at the commencement ceremony.

   • 1881, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage (eds.), History of Woman Suffrage, New York: Fowler & Wells, Volume 1, Chapter 2, p. 43,^[5]

     The first daily newspaper in the world was established and edited by a woman, Elizabeth Mallet, in London, March, 1702. It was called The Daily Courant. In her salutatory, Mrs. Mallet declared she had established her paper to “spare the public at least half the impertinences which the ordinary papers contain.”

   • 1887, Augusta Jane Evans, At the Mercy of Tiberius, New York: The Co-operative Publication Society, Chapter 31, p. 548,^[6]

     […] a robin red-breast, winging his way from the orange and jasmine boughs of the far sweet South, rested on the ivied wall, and poured out his happy heart in a salutatory to the rising sun.

   • 1916, Max B. May, Isaac Mayer Wise, the Founder of American Judaism: A Biography, New York: Putnam, Chapter 16, p. 395,^[7]

     His life’s work is well summed up in his salutatory to vol. xliv. of the American Israelite […]

3. (obsolete) A place for saluting or greeting; a vestibule; a porch.
   • 1641, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England, for Thomas Underhill, Book 2, p. 80,^[8]

     […] coming to the Bishop with Supplication into the Salutatory, some out Porch of the Church, he was charg’d by him of tyrannicall madnes against GOD, for comming into holy ground.

Derived terms

• salutatorian
• salutatory address

See also

• valedictory