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Amphiprostyle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Having a prostyle or set of columns at each end but none along the sides, as in some Greek temples.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Having columns at either end but not along the sides.

n. An amphiprostyle temple or edifice.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Literally, having columns both in front and behind.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure

Word Usage

"First there is the temple in antis, or [Greek: naos en parastasin] as it is called in Greek; then the prostyle, amphiprostyle, peripteral, pseudodipteral, dipteral, and hypaethral."

Equivalent

apteral

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

amphiprostylar