vestibule

Meanings

Noun

• An antechamber, passage, hall or room between the outer door and the interior of a building.
• Any of a number of body cavities or channels, serving as or resembling an entrance to another bodily space.

Verb

• To furnish with a vestibule or vestibules.

Origin

• Early 17th century, borrowed from French vestibule ("entrance court"), from Latin vestibulum ("forecourt, entrance court; entrance"), from vestiō + -bulum. vestibulum.