Word Meanings - VESTIBULE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The porch or entrance into a house; a hall or antechamber next the entrance; a lobby; a porch; a hall. Vestibule of the ear. See under Ear. -- Vestibule of the vulva , a triangular space between the nymphæ, in which the orifice of the urethra

Additional info about word: VESTIBULE

The porch or entrance into a house; a hall or antechamber next the entrance; a lobby; a porch; a hall. Vestibule of the ear. See under Ear. -- Vestibule of the vulva , a triangular space between the nymphæ, in which the orifice of the urethra is situated. -- Vestibule train , a train of passenger cars having the space between the end doors of adjacent cars inclosed, so as to admit of leaving the doors open to provide for intercommunication between all the cars. Syn. -- Hall; passage. -- Vestibule, Hall, Passage. A vestibule is a small apartment within the doors of a building. A hall is the first large apartment beyond the vestibule, and, in the United States, is often long and narrow, serving as a passage to the several apartments. In England, the hall is generally square or oblong, and a long, narrow space of entrance is called a passage, not a hall, as in America. Vestibule is often used in a figurative sense to denote a place of entrance. "The citizens of Rome placed the images of their ancestors in the vestibules of their houses." Bolingbroke

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VESTIBULE)

• Approach
• Access
• avenue
• entrance
• adit
• vestibule
• arrival
• approximation
• advent
• Bearing
• admission
• appropinquation
• admittance
• mode
• path
• way
• advance
• similarity
• Introduction
• Induction
• importation
• leading
• taking
• presentation
• insertion
• commencement
• preliminary
• preface
• initiative
• portico
• gate
• preamble
• prelude

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of VESTIBULE)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease

Related words: (words related to VESTIBULE)

• PRELUDE
  An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially , a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with
• PRELUDER
  One who, or that which, preludes; one who plays a prelude. Mason.
• LEADING EDGE
  same as Advancing edge, above.
• TAKING
  1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• ADVENTIST
  One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also Second Adventists. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.
• ADVENTIVE
  Adventitious. Gray. (more info) 1. Accidental.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• ADVENTURESS
  A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.
• APPROXIMATION
  1. The act of approximating; a drawing, advancing or being near; approach; also, the result of approximating. The largest capacity and the most noble dispositions are but an approximation to the proper standard and true symmetry of human nature.
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• ADVENTUROUSNESS
  The quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness.
• ADMITTANCE
  The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate. Bouvier. Syn. -- Admission; access; entrance; initiation. -- Admittance, Admission. These words are, to some extent, in a state of transition and change. Admittance is now chiefly confined to its
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• BEARISH
  Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris.
• WITHDRAWAL
  The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.
• TAKE
  Taken. Chaucer.
• BEARWARD
  A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. Shak.
• WITHDRAW
  1. To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like. Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything. Hooker. 2. To
• INDUCTION
  The act or process of reasoning from a part to a whole, from particulars to generals, or from the individual to the universal; also, the result or inference so reached. Induction is an inference drawn from all the particulars. Sir W. Hamilton.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• UNMISTAKABLE
  Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv.
• POT LEAD
  Graphite, or black lead, often used on the bottoms of racing vessels to diminish friction.
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• NONARRIVAL
  Failure to arrive.
• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• COUNTERPLEAD
  To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.
• MISTAKING
  An error; a mistake. Shak.
• PLEADINGS
  The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some
• NONPRESENTATION
  Neglect or failure to present; state of not being presented.
• SEABEARD
  A green seaweed growing in dense tufts.
• DOWNBEAR
  To bear down; to depress.
• MISTAKINGLY
  Erroneously.
• RINGLEADER
  1. The leader of a circle of dancers; hence, the leader of a number of persons acting together; the leader of a herd of animals. A primacy of order, such an one as the ringleader hath in a dance. Barrow. 2. Opprobriously, a leader of a body of