vestibulen.

Brit.

/ˈvɛstᵻbjuːl/, U.S.

/ˈvɛstəˌbjul/

Forms: Also α. 1600s–1700s vestible.

Etymology: < Latin vestibulum (hence French vestibule, Old French vestible, Italian vestibolo, Spanish vestibulo, Portuguese vestibulo), entrance-court, forecourt, entrance. The origin of the Latin word is uncertain.

a. In reference to ancient times: The enclosed or partially enclosed space in front of the main entrance of a Roman or Greek house or building; an entrance-court or forecourt.In some instances approximating to 1b.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > courtyard > [noun] > fore-court

vestiary1382

fore-yard1420

forecourt1535

vestibule1623

foregartha1642

antecourt1659

vestibulum1662

frontstead1688

frontcourt1749

paepae1919

α.

1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. i Vestible, the porch of a dore.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Vestible,..a void place without the door, a Porch, an Entry.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Atrium Some have mistakenly confounded the Atrium with the porch or vestible, from which it was distinct.

1796 C. Burney Mem. Life Metastasio II. 163 Porticos, vestibles of temples, and other public buildings.

β. a1751 Visct. Bolingbroke Lett. Study Hist. (1752) I. ii. 19 The citizens of Rome placed the images of their ancestors in the vestibules of their houses.1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1851) II. 1081/1 This tyrant..would not suffer his guards to do duty in the palace, but only in the vestibule and porticos about it.1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xi. 942 While ye on preparation of the feast Attended both, Ulysses and myself Stood in the vestibule.1820 J. Keats Lamia ii, in Lamia & Other Poems 36 He met within the murmurous vestibule His young disciple.a1822 P. B. Shelley Cyclops in Posthumous Poems (1824) 340 [To] Throw you as ballast into the ship's hold, And then deliver you, a slave, to move Enormous rocks, or found a vestibule.1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn I. i. 4 In its vestibule was a bronze statue, fifty feet high.

b. In modern usage: A chamber or hall immediately between the entrance-door and the interior of a building or house (usually one of some size), to which it gives admittance; an ante-chamber, entrance-hall, or lobby.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room by situation > [noun] > entrance-hall or vestibule

fore-entry1535

hall1663

entrance hall1677

side entry1680

tambour1728

vestibule1730

entryway1746

entry hall1753

oeil-de-boeuf1785

voorhuis1822

voorkamer1827

atrium1864

hallway1877

wind-porch1899

mud room1950

α.

1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum A Vestible is also used for a Kind of little Anti-Chamber before the Entrance of an ordinary Apartment.

1747 in Minutes of Evid. Nairne Peerage (1873) 80 in Sessional Papers House of Lords (H.L. A) XII. 65 In the low vestible ane old clock.

β. 1756 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 437 Her apartment is the prettiest thing I ever saw, consisting of a skylight antechamber or vestibule, adorned in the Gothic way.1797 A. Radcliffe Italian I. i. 9 He was soon after admitted to a small vestibule, where he found Signora Bianchi winding balls of silk.1829 Ann. Reg. 1828 Chron. 76/1 A scene almost of butchery took place in the staircases and vestibules.1862 M. E. Braddon Lady Audley's Secret III. i. 13 She did not pause until she reached the vestibule.1881 Owen in Nature No. 618. 425 The impressive and rather gloomy vestibule which leads to the great hall.in combination.1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Nov. 2/2 This room opens into a long and lofty vestibule-like chamber.

c. transferred and figurative.Frequently from c1800; usually const. of, as in the first group.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [noun] > means of entrance > place of entrance

ingangc900

entryc1325

incominga1382

enteringa1398

incomea1400

accessa1460

coming ina1483

entrance?c1525

door-gatea1529

ingatea1599

inlet1624

inroad1650

antechamber1672

vestibule1755

(a)

1755 E. Young Centaur ii, in Wks. (1757) IV. 141 The dark, solemn approaches to, or dismal vestibules of, the grave.

1785 R. Burns Commonplace Bk. (1965) 43 If ever any young man, on the vestibule of the world, chance to throw his eye over these pages [etc.].

1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 3 254 There can be no very great deviation, while we remain at the vestibule of useful inquiry.

1833 H. Coleridge Biographia Borealis 3 A single copy of verses [by Marvell]..keeping its station in the vestibule of Paradise Lost.

1861 J. G. Holland Lessons in Life iii. 48 To-day we stand in life's vestibule.

1875 L. H. Grindon Life (new ed.) i. 4 True figurative language is..the vestibule of philosophy.

(b)a1780 J. Harris Philol. Inq. (1781) ii. iv. 106 Looking upon Knowledge..to pass into the Mansions of the Mind thro' Language, they were careful..not to offend in the Vestibule.a1848 R. W. Hamilton Rewards & Punishm. (1853) viii. 379 The present is the vestibule to a boundless existence.1850 F. D. Maurice Moral & Metaphysical Philos. (ed. 2) I. 131 One large class of the Platonic Dialogues, which are the induction or vestibule to the rest.1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets i. 3 Language and Mythology form the vestibules and outer courts to Homer, Pheidias, Lycurgus.

d. An enclosed and covered-in portion at either end of a railway carriage, serving as a means of passage from one carriage to another. Also attributive in vestibule train (see vestibuled adj.). Originally U.S.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > carriage designed to carry passengers > parts of

platform1821

clerestorya1884

vestibule1889

corridor1892

1889 Daily News 7 May 7/3 Communication was then established by throwing a board across, and privacy secured by stretching a piece of canvas above to connect the two roofs. It was the vestibule train principle established unexpectedly in a new quarter.

1890 T. M. Cooley et al. Railways Amer. 246 A perfectly enclosed vestibule of handsome architectural appearance between the cars.

1896 Daily News 14 July 9/7 The new vestibule East Coast train.

2. Anatomy (and Zoology). One or other of various cavities or hollows regarded as forming an approach or entrance to another, usually a larger or more important, part.A number of these, as vestibule of the aorta, vestibule of the larynx, vestibule of the mouth, vestibule of the pharynx, are specified in recent encyclopædic and medical dictionaries.

a. The osseous cavity which forms the central portion of the labyrinth of the ear and is situated between the tympanum and the internal auditory canal, immediately behind the cochlea.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > sense organ > hearing organ > parts of hearing organ > [noun] > other cavities

window1615

vestibulum1704

vestibule1728

navicular fossa1802

saccule1836

utricle1837

membranous vestibule1842

fenestra1844

utriculus1847

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Ear The Labyrinth..is divided into three Parts; the first called the Vestibule.

1782 Monro's Anat. Human Bones (new ed.) 72 The other [hole] ends in several very small canals that allow a passage to the branches of the portio mollis..into the vestibule and cochlea.

1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 530/1 Of the compartments of the osseous labyrinth, the vestibule lies in the middle, the semi-circular canals behind it, and the cochlea in front.

1856 R. B. Todd & W. Bowman Physiol. Anat. II. 96 The essential part of the organ of hearing is the vestibule.

1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 188 The bony labyrinth consists of an irregular central cavity, the vestibule.

b. (See quot. 1857.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > sex organs > female sex organs > [noun] > vulva > vestibule

vestibulum1800

vestibule1841

1841 F. H. Ramsbotham Princ. & Pract. Obstetr. Med. 55 The Meatus Urinarius,..which is the canal leading to the bladder, is situated at the further extremity of the vestibule.

1857 W. R. Bullock tr. P. Cazeaux Theoret. & Pract. Treat. Midwifery (ed. 2) 43 The vestibule is a small triangular space placed at the upper part of the vulva.

1883 J. M. Duncan Clin. Lect. Dis. Women (ed. 2) xvii. 167 I call them inflammations of the pudendum; but they are often called inflammations of the vulva, and sometimes of the vestibule.

c. membranous vestibule, the membranous sacs contained within the osseous vestibule of the ear.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > sense organ > hearing organ > parts of hearing organ > [noun] > other cavities

window1615

vestibulum1704

vestibule1728

navicular fossa1802

saccule1836

utricle1837

membranous vestibule1842

fenestra1844

utriculus1847

1842 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 3) (at cited word) There is also another membrane, constituting the membranous vestibule, but it is not an exact imitation of the osseous cavity.

d. Zoology. = vestibulum n. 2b. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > protozoa > class Infusoria > [noun] > member of > parts of > cavity

vestibulum1859

vestibule1875

1875 T. H. Huxley & H. N. Martin Course Elem. Biol. 87 When fæcal matters are discharged, they make their way out by an aperture which is temporarily formed in the floor of this vestibule.

Compounds

General attributive, as vestibule school (see quot. 1923).

ΚΠ

1923 J. D. Hackett Labor Terms in Managem. Engin. May Vestibule School, a department in a plant whereby new workers are trained intensively to operate the same machines as the regular working force.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	vestibule
释义	vestibulen. Brit. /ˈvɛstᵻbjuːl/, U.S. /ˈvɛstəˌbjul/ Forms: Also α. 1600s–1700s vestible. Etymology: < Latin vestibulum (hence French vestibule, Old French vestible, Italian vestibolo, Spanish vestibulo, Portuguese vestibulo), entrance-court, forecourt, entrance. The origin of the Latin word is uncertain. 1. a. In reference to ancient times: The enclosed or partially enclosed space in front of the main entrance of a Roman or Greek house or building; an entrance-court or forecourt.In some instances approximating to 1b. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > courtyard > [noun] > fore-court vestiary1382 fore-yard1420 forecourt1535 vestibule1623 foregartha1642 antecourt1659 vestibulum1662 frontstead1688 frontcourt1749 paepae1919 α. 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. i Vestible, the porch of a dore. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Vestible,..a void place without the door, a Porch, an Entry. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Atrium Some have mistakenly confounded the Atrium with the porch or vestible, from which it was distinct. 1796 C. Burney Mem. Life Metastasio II. 163 Porticos, vestibles of temples, and other public buildings. β. a1751 Visct. Bolingbroke Lett. Study Hist. (1752) I. ii. 19 The citizens of Rome placed the images of their ancestors in the vestibules of their houses.1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1851) II. 1081/1 This tyrant..would not suffer his guards to do duty in the palace, but only in the vestibule and porticos about it.1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xi. 942 While ye on preparation of the feast Attended both, Ulysses and myself Stood in the vestibule.1820 J. Keats Lamia ii, in Lamia & Other Poems 36 He met within the murmurous vestibule His young disciple.a1822 P. B. Shelley Cyclops in Posthumous Poems (1824) 340 [To] Throw you as ballast into the ship's hold, And then deliver you, a slave, to move Enormous rocks, or found a vestibule.1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn I. i. 4 In its vestibule was a bronze statue, fifty feet high. b. In modern usage: A chamber or hall immediately between the entrance-door and the interior of a building or house (usually one of some size), to which it gives admittance; an ante-chamber, entrance-hall, or lobby. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room by situation > [noun] > entrance-hall or vestibule fore-entry1535 hall1663 entrance hall1677 side entry1680 tambour1728 vestibule1730 entryway1746 entry hall1753 oeil-de-boeuf1785 voorhuis1822 voorkamer1827 atrium1864 hallway1877 wind-porch1899 mud room1950 α. 1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum A Vestible is also used for a Kind of little Anti-Chamber before the Entrance of an ordinary Apartment. 1747 in Minutes of Evid. Nairne Peerage (1873) 80 in Sessional Papers House of Lords (H.L. A) XII. 65 In the low vestible ane old clock. β. 1756 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 437 Her apartment is the prettiest thing I ever saw, consisting of a skylight antechamber or vestibule, adorned in the Gothic way.1797 A. Radcliffe Italian I. i. 9 He was soon after admitted to a small vestibule, where he found Signora Bianchi winding balls of silk.1829 Ann. Reg. 1828 Chron. 76/1 A scene almost of butchery took place in the staircases and vestibules.1862 M. E. Braddon Lady Audley's Secret III. i. 13 She did not pause until she reached the vestibule.1881 Owen in Nature No. 618. 425 The impressive and rather gloomy vestibule which leads to the great hall.in combination.1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Nov. 2/2 This room opens into a long and lofty vestibule-like chamber. c. transferred and figurative.Frequently from c1800; usually const. of, as in the first group. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [noun] > means of entrance > place of entrance ingangc900 entryc1325 incominga1382 enteringa1398 incomea1400 accessa1460 coming ina1483 entrance?c1525 door-gatea1529 ingatea1599 inlet1624 inroad1650 antechamber1672 vestibule1755 (a) 1755 E. Young Centaur ii, in Wks. (1757) IV. 141 The dark, solemn approaches to, or dismal vestibules of, the grave. 1785 R. Burns Commonplace Bk. (1965) 43 If ever any young man, on the vestibule of the world, chance to throw his eye over these pages [etc.]. 1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 3 254 There can be no very great deviation, while we remain at the vestibule of useful inquiry. 1833 H. Coleridge Biographia Borealis 3 A single copy of verses [by Marvell]..keeping its station in the vestibule of Paradise Lost. 1861 J. G. Holland Lessons in Life iii. 48 To-day we stand in life's vestibule. 1875 L. H. Grindon Life (new ed.) i. 4 True figurative language is..the vestibule of philosophy. (b)a1780 J. Harris Philol. Inq. (1781) ii. iv. 106 Looking upon Knowledge..to pass into the Mansions of the Mind thro' Language, they were careful..not to offend in the Vestibule.a1848 R. W. Hamilton Rewards & Punishm. (1853) viii. 379 The present is the vestibule to a boundless existence.1850 F. D. Maurice Moral & Metaphysical Philos. (ed. 2) I. 131 One large class of the Platonic Dialogues, which are the induction or vestibule to the rest.1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets i. 3 Language and Mythology form the vestibules and outer courts to Homer, Pheidias, Lycurgus. d. An enclosed and covered-in portion at either end of a railway carriage, serving as a means of passage from one carriage to another. Also attributive in vestibule train (see vestibuled adj.). Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > carriage designed to carry passengers > parts of platform1821 clerestorya1884 vestibule1889 corridor1892 1889 Daily News 7 May 7/3 Communication was then established by throwing a board across, and privacy secured by stretching a piece of canvas above to connect the two roofs. It was the vestibule train principle established unexpectedly in a new quarter. 1890 T. M. Cooley et al. Railways Amer. 246 A perfectly enclosed vestibule of handsome architectural appearance between the cars. 1896 Daily News 14 July 9/7 The new vestibule East Coast train. 2. Anatomy (and Zoology). One or other of various cavities or hollows regarded as forming an approach or entrance to another, usually a larger or more important, part.A number of these, as vestibule of the aorta, vestibule of the larynx, vestibule of the mouth, vestibule of the pharynx, are specified in recent encyclopædic and medical dictionaries. a. The osseous cavity which forms the central portion of the labyrinth of the ear and is situated between the tympanum and the internal auditory canal, immediately behind the cochlea. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sense organ > hearing organ > parts of hearing organ > [noun] > other cavities window1615 vestibulum1704 vestibule1728 navicular fossa1802 saccule1836 utricle1837 membranous vestibule1842 fenestra1844 utriculus1847 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Ear The Labyrinth..is divided into three Parts; the first called the Vestibule. 1782 Monro's Anat. Human Bones (new ed.) 72 The other [hole] ends in several very small canals that allow a passage to the branches of the portio mollis..into the vestibule and cochlea. 1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 530/1 Of the compartments of the osseous labyrinth, the vestibule lies in the middle, the semi-circular canals behind it, and the cochlea in front. 1856 R. B. Todd & W. Bowman Physiol. Anat. II. 96 The essential part of the organ of hearing is the vestibule. 1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 188 The bony labyrinth consists of an irregular central cavity, the vestibule. b. (See quot. 1857.) ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sex organs > female sex organs > [noun] > vulva > vestibule vestibulum1800 vestibule1841 1841 F. H. Ramsbotham Princ. & Pract. Obstetr. Med. 55 The Meatus Urinarius,..which is the canal leading to the bladder, is situated at the further extremity of the vestibule. 1857 W. R. Bullock tr. P. Cazeaux Theoret. & Pract. Treat. Midwifery (ed. 2) 43 The vestibule is a small triangular space placed at the upper part of the vulva. 1883 J. M. Duncan Clin. Lect. Dis. Women (ed. 2) xvii. 167 I call them inflammations of the pudendum; but they are often called inflammations of the vulva, and sometimes of the vestibule. c. membranous vestibule, the membranous sacs contained within the osseous vestibule of the ear. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sense organ > hearing organ > parts of hearing organ > [noun] > other cavities window1615 vestibulum1704 vestibule1728 navicular fossa1802 saccule1836 utricle1837 membranous vestibule1842 fenestra1844 utriculus1847 1842 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 3) (at cited word) There is also another membrane, constituting the membranous vestibule, but it is not an exact imitation of the osseous cavity. d. Zoology. = vestibulum n. 2b. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > protozoa > class Infusoria > [noun] > member of > parts of > cavity vestibulum1859 vestibule1875 1875 T. H. Huxley & H. N. Martin Course Elem. Biol. 87 When fæcal matters are discharged, they make their way out by an aperture which is temporarily formed in the floor of this vestibule. Compounds General attributive, as vestibule school (see quot. 1923). ΚΠ 1923 J. D. Hackett Labor Terms in Managem. Engin. May Vestibule School, a department in a plant whereby new workers are trained intensively to operate the same machines as the regular working force. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2022). vestibulev. Brit. /ˈvɛstᵻbjuːl/, U.S. /ˈvɛstəˌbjul/ Etymology: Back-formation < vestibuled adj. transitive. To provide or supply (a railway carriage) with vestibules; to unite by means of vestibules. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [verb (transitive)] > provide or unite with vestibules vestibule1891 1891 in Cent. Dict. 1896 Westm. Gaz. 20 Apr. 2/1 The two cars..are ‘vestibuled’ together by a central lobby. 1904 Notes & Queries 10th Ser. 1 346/2 Through carriages on a certain train between London and Hull will henceforward be ‘vestibuled through’ to an express. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1623v.1891
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vestibulen.

Compounds

vestibulev.