n
(architecture) The uppermost portion of the capital of a column immediately under the architrave, in some cases a flat oblong or square slab, in others more decorated.
n
Alternative spelling of apsis [(architecture) A recess or projection, with a dome or vault, at the east end of a church; an apse.]
n
(architecture) An acroterium.
n
(architecture) One of the small pedestals, for statues or other ornaments, placed on the apex and at the basal angles of a pediment, or upon the gables in Gothic architecture.
n
(medicine) A symbol of the medical profession, consisting of a branched staff with a single snake twined around it.
adj
(architecture, chiefly historical, of a temple or edifice) Having columns at either end but not along the sides.
n
(architecture) A console that appears to support a cornice.
n
(architecture) The vertical blocks which terminate the covering tiles of the roof of a Roman, Etruscan, or Greek temple.
n
(architecture) Alternative form of antefix [(architecture) The vertical blocks which terminate the covering tiles of the roof of a Roman, Etruscan, or Greek temple.]
n
(architecture) Alternative form of antefix [(architecture) The vertical blocks which terminate the covering tiles of the roof of a Roman, Etruscan, or Greek temple.]
n
An outer porch or vestibule.
n
The portico or narthex in an ancient temple or church.
n
(architecture) A curvature found on the top or bottom of certain columns.
n
(architecture) A semicircular projection from a building, especially the rounded east end of a church that contains the altar.
adj
(architecture) Having an apse or apses (semicircular projection(s) from a building).
adj
(architecture) Of, pertaining to, or in the form of an apse.
adv
(architecture) With regard to or by means of an apse or apses
n
Alternative form of apsidole [(architecture) A minor apse at the end of a side aisle in a church.]
n
(architecture) A minor apse at the end of a side aisle in a church.
n
(architecture) A recess or projection, with a dome or vault, at the east end of a church; an apse.
adj
(architecture) Without lateral columns; applied to buildings which have no series of columns along their sides, but are either prostyle or amphiprostyle.
n
(architecture) intercolumniation
n
(architecture) An arrangement of columns that alternates between araeostyle and systyle.
n
The arched part of a structure.
adj
Of or relating to an architrave.
n
Alternative form of araeostyle [(architecture) intercolumniation]
adj
(architecture) Lacking columns or pilasters
n
(architecture) A figure of a man used as a column.
n
(countable, architecture) The uppermost part of a column.
n
(architecture) The central, enclosed part of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticos.
n
(architecture) A fixed vaulted canopy over a Christian altar, supported on four columns.
n
(architecture) The ornament carved at the capital of a column
n
A pier that consists of several columns or shafts clustered together.
adj
Alternative spelling of colonnaded [(architecture) Having one or more colonnades.]
n
(architecture) A small column.
v
to provide with, or put in the form of, columns
n
(architecture) A small column
n
(architecture) An arrangement or grouping of columns
n
(architecture) One of the three canonical classical orders of pillars, describing sleek pillars with foliate capitols and small volutes.
adj
(architecture) Reminiscent of the Corinthian Greek order of architecture.
n
(architecture) An internal courtyard, surrounded by walls but open to the sky
n
(architecture) An arch built adjacent to another arch to oppose its forces or help to stabilize it.
n
In classical Greek architecture, the platform of (usually three) levels upon which the superstructure of the building is erected, typically forming a series of steps.
n
Alternative form of cryptoporticus [(Roman architecture) A vaulted corridor or arcade at, or just below ground level; normally lit by openings in the upper part of the vault. Also a roofed promenade that is enclosed with side walls that have windows or openings instead of columns.]
n
(Roman architecture) A vaulted corridor or arcade at, or just below ground level; normally lit by openings in the upper part of the vault. Also a roofed promenade that is enclosed with side walls that have windows or openings instead of columns.
n
(architecture) Ancient masonry where walls are fitted together of huge irregular stones; architecture that is ancient and roughly composed.
adj
(architecture) Of or pertaining to a cyclostyle (a circular group of columns without a core).
n
(architecture) A circular group of columns without a core.
adj
(architecture) having a cyclostyle
adj
(architecture) Of or pertaining to, or being, a large north-facing hall with a prospect towards the gardens; the windows of this hall opened down to the ground, so that the green verdure could be seen by those lying on the couches.
n
A portico with ten columns.
n
(architecture) An intercolumnation of three column diameters.
n
(architecture, historical) A peristyle round the great court of the palaestra.
adj
Having a double row of columns on each on the flanks, as well as in front and rear, often said of a temple.
n
(architecture) A building with double peristyle or colonnade.
n
(architecture) A temple, portico, etc. that has two columns in front.
n
(architecture) A space for two triglyphs in the entablature between columns.
n
(architecture) A portico or building with twelve columns in front.
adj
Relating to one of the Greek orders of architecture, distinguished by its simplicity and solidity.
n
The least ornate of the three styles of classical Greek architecture.
n
The Doric style of architecture.
n
Alternative form of dodecastyle [(architecture) A portico or building with twelve columns in front.]
adj
(poetic) Furnished with columns.
adj
(architecture, of a column) attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
n
(architecture) A column embedded in a wall and partly projecting from the surface of the wall
adj
(architecture, of a Classical temple or other structure) Having nine columns.
n
(architecture) All of that part of a classical temple above the capitals of the columns; includes the architrave, frieze, and cornice but not the roof.
n
(architecture) An open vestibule behind the nave, differentiated from the opisthodomos.
n
(architecture, historical) A massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital of a column or pillar; an architrave.
n
(architecture) An intercolumniation.
n
(architecture) A semicircular recess, with stone benches, used as a place for discussion.
n
(architecture) A small volute under the abacus of a Corinthian capital.
adj
(architecture, of a Classical temple or other structure) having seven columns
adj
(architecture) having six columns at the front on the portico
adj
(architecture) Having a roof supported on a row of columns.
adv
(architecture) Between antae; said of a portico in classical style, where columns are set between two antae, forming the angles of the building.
n
(architecture) A space between columns.
n
(architecture) The regular spaces (or system of spacing) between the columns of a colonnade.
adj
(architecture) Exhibiting intercolumniation.
n
(architecture) The interval or space between two pilasters
adj
(architecture) of an order of classical Greek architecture whose distinguishing feature is a capital with spiral volutes.
n
The Ionic style in architecture.
n
(architecture) A monumental pillar, particularly the Buddhist columns erected in East India.
n
(architecture) A pilaster with very slight projections.
n
(architecture) A plinth or step above the cornice of the podium in an ancient temple.
n
Alternative form of Mayan arch [A form of corbel arch with small regular corbels.]
n
A form of corbel arch with small regular corbels.
n
(architecture) The architectural element between two triglyphs in a Doric frieze.
adj
Of or pertaining to a building style where each floor has its own separate rows of columns.
adj
(architecture) Round and without a cella; consisting of a single ring of columns supporting a roof; said especially of a temple.
n
(architecture) A circular temple consisting of a roof supported on columns, without a cella.
n
(architecture) A classical temple made up of one circle of columns supporting a roof.
adj
(architecture) Having a single column.
n
(architecture) A kind of intercolumniation in an entablature, in which only one triglyph and two metopes are introduced
n
(historical, architecture) The inner part of an ancient Greek temple, containing a statue of the temple's deity and surrounded by a colonnaded portico; (by extension) the Roman cella, which it later gave rise to.
adj
(architecture) Having eight columns in the front row (of a portico etc.)
n
(architecture) A temple or portico with eight columns in front.
n
(architecture) An onion-shaped dome, characteristic of august buildings in Moghul and Russian architecture
n
(Greek architecture) A porch at the rear of a temple, set against the blank back wall of the cella.
n
(architecture, historical) An Ancient Roman construction technique, using irregular-shaped and randomly placed uncut stones or fist-sized tuff blocks inserted in a core of opus caementicium (Roman concrete).
n
(architecture) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (since the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural design.
n
An ornamental screen on which a secondary organ is sometimes placed in cathedrals.
n
(architecture) A straight line of columns.
adj
(architecture) In the style of the Italian neoclassical architect Andrea Palladio.
n
(architecture) Palladian architecture
n
A portico surrounding such a space.
n
Interior pavement, as in a cathedral.
n
(architecture) A classical architectural element consisting of a triangular section or gable found above the horizontal superstructure (entablature) which lies immediately upon the columns; fronton.
n
(architecture) A portico with five columns.
n
(architecture, historical) An enclosed court, especially one surrounding a temple.
n
Alternative form of peribolos [(architecture, historical) An enclosed court, especially one surrounding a temple.]
n
The space between the columns and the wall of the cella in an Ancient Greek or Roman temple
n
(rare) In classical architecture, a building surrounded by a single row of columns.
adj
(architecture) peripterous
n
A type of Ancient Greek or Ancient Roman temple surrounded by a portico with columns.
adj
(architecture) Surrounded by a single row of columns.
n
(architecture) A building surrounded by a wing or row of columns.
n
(countable, architecture) A four-sided porch or hall of columns surrounding the cella in an Ancient Greek peripteros temple.
adj
Having the form of a peristyle.
n
A porch surrounded by columns.
n
(architecture) A platform outside the raised entrance to a church or large building, or the steps leading to such a platform. US: stoop.
n
(architecture) Any of a set of male figures used instead of columns to support an entablature.
adj
Relating to, or composed of pilasters
n
(architecture) A low screen between columns, especially one that surrounds the choir of a church
adj
(architecture) Having many columns; said of a building, especially of an interior part or court.
n
A portico; a covered walk.
n
A porch, or a small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building.
n
(architecture, historical) The porch, vestibule, or entrance of an edifice.
n
A building having pillars only along the front side
adj
(architecture) Falsely or imperfectly dipteral, like a temple with the inner range of columns surrounding the cella omitted, so that the space between the cella wall and the columns is very great, being equal to two intercolumns and one column
n
(architecture) A pseudodipteral structure
adj
(architecture) Falsely or imperfectly peripteral
n
A walkway, in a Greek or Roman temple, between the cella and surrounding colonnade.
n
(architecture) A peristyle raised on a podium, differing from an ordinary peristyle raised only on a stylobate.
n
(architecture) A colonnade of this kind.
n
(architecture) A four-sided portico.
n
A nearly square courtyard surrounded by colonnaded porticoes.
n
One quarter of a cruciform church, or the architectural area of a church used by the choir, often near the apse.
n
(architecture) one of the bands under a Doric triglyph or between the canals of the triglyphs
n
(architecture) An arch in a wall to relieve the part below it from a superincumbent weight.
n
(architecture) A sort of second plinth or block, below the bases of Ionic and Corinthian columns, generally without mouldings and of smaller size horizontally than the pedestal.
n
(architecture) rectangular apse
n
(historical) An ancient unit of length and area based on the knotted cords first used in Egyptian surveying.
adj
(architecture) Twisted helically.
n
In Ancient Greece, a walkway with a roof supported by colonnades, often with a wall on one side; specifically, the Great Hall in Athens.
n
(architecture) A caryatid at the base of a column
n
(architecture) An architectural work produced by this method.
adj
(architecture) Having a space equal to two diameters or four modules between two columns; said of a portico or building.
n
(architecture) The capital of a Corinthian column.
n
(architecture) A type of tetrapylon in which the central crossing is not roofed, and the four corner-markers exist as four separate structures, not connected overhead.
n
(architecture) A Roman-style cubic structure with a gate on each of its four sides.
n
A four-sided colonnade, typically enclosing a courtyard
n
(architecture) A building (especially a portico) that has four columns
n
A kind of cavaedium supported by columns placed at the four angles of the impluvium.
n
A dome, or domed building; a cupola.
n
(architecture) The neck of a column.
n
(architecture) The transversal part of a church, which crosses at right angles to the greatest length, and between the nave and choir. In the basilicas, this had often no projection at its two ends. In Gothic churches these project greatly, and should be called the arms of the transept. It is common, however, to speak of the arms themselves as the transepts.
n
(architecture) The gallery of arches above the side-aisle vaulting in the nave of a church.
adj
(architecture) Belonging to the simplest of the five classical orders of architecture, being a Roman modification of the Doric style, with unfluted columns, and without triglyphs.
n
Alternative form of xystus [(historical, architecture, in Ancient Greece) A long and open portico within the gymnasium.]
n
(archaic) The lowest part of a column or pedestal
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