Usually means: Temple surrounded by a single colonnade.
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  1. peripteral: Merriam-Webster
  2. peripteral: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. peripteral: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. peripteral: Collins English Dictionary
  5. peripteral: Vocabulary.com
  6. peripteral: Wordnik
  7. peripteral: Wiktionary
  8. peripteral: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. peripteral: Dictionary.com
  10. Peripteral: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Peripteral: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. peripteral: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. peripteral: Rhymezone
  14. Peripteral: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. peripteral: FreeDictionary.org
  16. peripteral: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. peripteral: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. peripteral: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. peripteral: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Science (1 matching dictionary)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (peripteral)

▸ adjective:  (architecture) peripterous
▸ adjective:  (zoology) peripterous
▸ noun:  (architecture) A peripterous structure.

Similar:
pseudoperipteral, peristylar, monopteral, peripterous, peritropous, apsed, pseudodipteral, parallelepipedal, parallelepipedical, pendent, more...

Opposite:
enclosed, surrounded, encompassed

Phrases:
pseudo peripteral, pseuso peripteral, more...

Adjectives:
pseudo, circular, hexastyle, octastyle, octostyle, decastyle

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Similar:
pseudoperipteral, peristylar, monopteral, peripterous, peritropous, apsed, pseudodipteral, parallelepipedal, parallelepipedical, pendent, more...

Opposite:
enclosed, surrounded, encompassed

Phrases:
pseudo peripteral, pseuso peripteral, more...

Adjectives:
pseudo, circular, hexastyle, octastyle, octostyle, decastyle



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